[tor-commits] [torspec/master] Prop 306: Add an optional ClientPreferIPv6ORPort consensus parameter

teor at torproject.org teor at torproject.org
Wed Jan 15 12:50:37 UTC 2020


commit 6664ed79ed4688209065e39a4eafb5e2bb59de66
Author: teor <teor at torproject.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 13 20:27:24 2020 +1000

    Prop 306: Add an optional ClientPreferIPv6ORPort consensus parameter
    
    Part of 29801.
---
 proposals/306-ipv6-happy-eyeballs.txt | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/proposals/306-ipv6-happy-eyeballs.txt b/proposals/306-ipv6-happy-eyeballs.txt
index 3d5c92c..d24fe63 100644
--- a/proposals/306-ipv6-happy-eyeballs.txt
+++ b/proposals/306-ipv6-happy-eyeballs.txt
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29801
 
    When the majority of clients and relay are IPv6-capable, we could set the
    default value of ClientPreferIPv6ORPort to 1, in order to take advantage
-   of IPv6.
+   of IPv6. We could add a ClientPreferIPv6ORPort consensus parameter, so we
+   can make this change network-wide.
 
 5. Relay Statistics
 
@@ -233,7 +234,8 @@ Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29801
       optional.)
 
     * A default setup capable of both IPv4 and IPv6 connections with the
-      options described in Section 4.1
+      options described in Section 4. (The ClientPreferIPv6ORPort consensus
+      parameter is optional.)
 
 8. Optional Features
 
@@ -255,6 +257,8 @@ Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29801
       adjusted, for instance, if clients often fail IPv6 connections.
       (Section 3.3.)
 
+    * ClientPreferIPv6ORPort consensus parameter. (Section 4.)
+
     * IPv4, IPv6, and Prop306 connection Statistics. While optional, this may
       be useful for debugging and reliability testing, and metrics on IPv4 vs
       IPv6. (Section 5.)





More information about the tor-commits mailing list