[tor-bugs] #30817 [Core Tor/Tor]: Write a proposal for tor bootstrapping that works on slow links, but avoids slow relays

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#30817: Write a proposal for tor bootstrapping that works on slow links, but avoids
slow relays
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 Reporter:  teor           |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task           |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium         |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor   |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-bootstrap  |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                 |        Sponsor:  Sponsor31-can
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Comment (by irl):

 This looks a lot like [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8305 Happy
 Eyeballs], which may have some useful considerations in it.

 There are applications other than tor that download directory information,
 including alternative implementations, controller libraries and Tor
 Metrics tools. While defining how all of those tools should behave is
 going to be out-of-scope for this proposal I would appreciate it if we
 could highlight cases where something may not be appropriate for another
 tool to copy.

 In a [https://research.torproject.org/techreports/modern-
 collector-2018-12-19.pdf Tor Tech Report] (section 3) we put together a
 design for an algorithm to archive directory information that might have
 some considerations that are relevant. It will probably be more useful for
 directory caches than clients. One of the stretch goals was to have the
 archive service also act as a directory cache in the network.

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