[tor-bugs] #33045 [Core Tor/Tor]: Increase the number of Tor network relays that support IPv6

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#33045: Increase the number of Tor network relays that support IPv6
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 Reporter:  gaba          |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  project       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:  Sponsor55-must
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:2 arma]:
 > Replying to [ticket:33045 gaba]:
 > > In order to better support IPv6, we aim to increase the client to
 Guard relay bandwidth that supports IPv6 to 33%.
 >
 > Great goal! One of the steps that will help the network health team help
 us get there is if we have a way to visualize progress. Like, a graph on
 the metrics site, or even a graph off to the side of the metrics site if
 they are too worried about having to maintain it forever, and maybe it
 only needs to be updated once a day if that's easier, where anybody can
 check what number we're at today.
 >
 > Then it becomes an advocacy thing where we can cheer ourselves on for
 making progress, and point relay operators to so they can see the impact
 of their changes.
 >
 > teor has identified some great technical improvements that will make it
 easier for relay operators to help out here, and we should definitely do
 those in order to make this change sustainable. But doing the
 visualization in parallel, so we can see our progress, would be swell.
 >
 > Having the automation of a graph over time also lets anybody notice,
 even after we close this ticket as completed, that the number has
 mysteriously dropped and needs to be looked into.
 >
 > Gaba, is this something you can bring to the metrics team? Especially if
 teor gives them a script that takes in a consensus and outputs a fraction?

 Thanks for this feedback, Roger.

 I've added metrics graphs, relay search pseudo-flags, and a consensus-
 health IPv6 section as optional changes in Proposal 313:
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-February/014158.html

 We've spoken with the metrics team, and we're not sure what capacity they
 have over the next 6 months. Or how much funding will be available in
 Sponsor 55, after all the required work is done.

 So we aren't sure what we will be able to do yet.

 (We can also apply for other grants to do this metrics work.)

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