[or-cvs] r15840: Revise proposal 147 as sugested by arma. (in tor/trunk: . doc/spec/proposals)

[nickm at seul.org]

Author: nickm
Date: 2008-07-11 12:33:41 -0400 (Fri, 11 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 15840

Modified:
   tor/trunk/
   tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/147-prevoting-opinions.txt
Log:
 r16897 at tombo:  nickm | 2008-07-11 12:30:57 -0400
 Revise proposal 147 as sugested by arma.



Property changes on: tor/trunk
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 svk:merge ticket from /tor/trunk [r16897] on 49666b30-7950-49c5-bedf-9dc8f3168102

Modified: tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/147-prevoting-opinions.txt
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/147-prevoting-opinions.txt	2008-07-11 16:33:36 UTC (rev 15839)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/147-prevoting-opinions.txt	2008-07-11 16:33:41 UTC (rev 15840)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: Nick Mathewson
 Created: 2-Jul-2008
-Status: Open
+Status: Accepted
 
 Overview
 
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@
   We add a new value for vote-status in v3 consensus documents in
   addition to "consensus" and "vote": "opinion".  Authorities generate
   and sign an opinion document as if they were generating a vote,
-  except that they send it to one another earlier than they send
-  votes.
+  except that they generate opinions earlier than they generate votes.
 
   Authorities don't need to generate more than one opinion document
   per voting interval, but may.  They should send it to the other
@@ -41,6 +40,13 @@
   the authorities begin voting, so that enough time remains for the
   authorities to fetch new descriptors.
 
+  Additionally, authories make their opinions available at
+     http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/next/opinion.z
+  and download opinions from authorties they haven't heard from in a
+  while.
+
+  Authorities MAY generate opinions on demand.
+
   Upon receiving an opinion document, authorities scan it for any
   descriptors that:
      - They might accept.