[or-cvs] r12040: Misc clarifications and corrections in dir-spec.txt (in tor/trunk: . doc/spec)

[nickm at seul.org]

Author: nickm
Date: 2007-10-18 22:15:43 -0400 (Thu, 18 Oct 2007)
New Revision: 12040

Modified:
   tor/trunk/
   tor/trunk/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
Log:
 r15938 at catbus:  nickm | 2007-10-18 22:04:59 -0400
 Misc clarifications and corrections in dir-spec.txt



Property changes on: tor/trunk
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 svk:merge ticket from /tor/trunk [r15938] on 8246c3cf-6607-4228-993b-4d95d33730f1

Modified: tor/trunk/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt	2007-10-19 01:57:47 UTC (rev 12039)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt	2007-10-19 02:15:43 UTC (rev 12040)
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
    (FU) time and a "valid-until" (VU) time.  VA MUST precede FU, which MUST
    in turn precede VU.  Times are chosen so that every consensus will be
    "fresh" until the next consensus becomes valid, and "valid" for a while
-   after.  At least 2 or 3 consensuses should be valid at any given time.
+   after.  At least 3 consensuses should be valid at any given time.
 
    The timeline for a given consensus is as follows:
 
@@ -320,11 +320,17 @@
 
    VA: All authorities have a multiply signed consensus.
 
-   VA ... FU: Caches download the consensus.
+   VA ... FU: Caches download the consensus.  (Note that since caches have
+        no way of telling what VA and FU are until they have downloaded
+        the consensus, they assume that the present descriptor's VA is
+        equal to the previous one's FU, and that its FU is one interval after
+        that.)
 
    FU: The consensus is no long the freshest consensus.
 
-   FU ... VU: Clients download the consensus.
+   FU ... (the current descriptors's VU): Clients download the consensus.
+        (See note above: clients guess that the next descriptor's FU will be
+        two intervals after the current VA.)
 
    VU: The consensus is no longer valid.
 
@@ -649,6 +655,11 @@
         the protocol described in this document.  Implementations MUST
         reject formats they don't understand.
 
+    "address" IP NL
+        [Once or more]
+
+        An IP:Port for this authority's directory port.
+
     "fingerprint" fingerprint NL
 
         [Exactly once.]
@@ -738,6 +749,15 @@
         consensuses from votes.  See section 3.4.1 for details.  Method "1"
         MUST be included.
 
+    "consensus-method" SP Integer NL
+
+        [Exactly once for consensuses; does not occur in votes.]
+
+        See section 3.4.1 for details.
+
+        (Only included when the vote is generated with consensus-method 2 or
+        later.)
+
     "published" SP YYYY-MM-DD SP HH:MM:SS NL
 
         [Exactly once for votes; does not occur in consensuses.]