[or-cvs] r9167: Clarify some points in dir-voting.txt raised by Paul Syverso (in tor/trunk: . doc)
nickm at seul.org
nickm at seul.org
Thu Dec 21 02:59:17 UTC 2006
Author: nickm
Date: 2006-12-20 21:59:15 -0500 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006)
New Revision: 9167
Modified:
tor/trunk/
tor/trunk/doc/dir-voting.txt
Log:
r11664 at Kushana: nickm | 2006-12-20 21:58:54 -0500
Clarify some points in dir-voting.txt raised by Paul Syverson.
Property changes on: tor/trunk
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svk:merge ticket from /tor/trunk [r11664] on c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59
Modified: tor/trunk/doc/dir-voting.txt
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--- tor/trunk/doc/dir-voting.txt 2006-12-21 02:59:11 UTC (rev 9166)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/dir-voting.txt 2006-12-21 02:59:15 UTC (rev 9167)
@@ -183,10 +183,10 @@
2.3.1. URLs and timeline used for agreement
- A router SHOULD publish its vote immediately at the start of each voting
+ An authority SHOULD publish its vote immediately at the start of each voting
period. It does this by making it available at
http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/authority.z
- and posting it to each other authority at the URL
+ and sending it in an HTTP POST request to each other authority at the URL
http://<hostname>/tor/post/vote
If, N minutes after the voting period has begun, an authority does not have
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@
http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/consensus-signatures.z
Once an authority has computed and signed a consensus network status, it
- should send its detached signature to each other authority at the URL
+ should send its detached signature to each other authority in an HTTP POST
+ request to the URL:
http://<hostname>/tor/post/consensus-signature
@@ -248,7 +249,11 @@
3.1. Push or pull?
- [XXXX]
+ The URLs above define a push mechanism for publishing votes and consensus
+ signatures via HTTP POST requests, and a pull mechanism for downloading
+ these documents via HTTP GET requests. As specified, every authority will
+ post to every other. The "download if no copy has been received" mechanism
+ exists only as a fallback.
3.2. Dropping "opt".
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