[or-cvs] added short note about route selection to dir-spec.txt

[goodell at seul.org]

Update of /home/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
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Modified Files:
	dir-spec.txt 
Log Message:
added short note about route selection to dir-spec.txt


Index: dir-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/dir-spec.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3
--- dir-spec.txt	20 Jan 2005 07:45:14 -0000	1.2
+++ dir-spec.txt	20 Jan 2005 07:49:57 -0000	1.3
@@ -167,4 +167,9 @@
 server in transport domain A, so that the directory server in transport domain
 A can use that router to reach the directory server in transport domain B.
 
+When confronted with the choice of multiple different paths to reach the same
+router, the Blossom nodes may use a route selection protocol similar in design
+to that used by BGP (may be a simple distance-vector route selection procedure
+that only takes into account path length, or may be more complex to avoid
+loops, cache results, etc.) in order to choose the best one.