[tor-dev] . tor-roster's geo diversity badge and self-ref relays

[Tom van der Woerdt]

> On 13 Sep 2015, at 22:09, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Sean Saito <saitosean at ymail.com> wrote:
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>> >"No Self-Referencing Relays"
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>> >I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that but I assume it is a MyFamily
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>> >config where a relay includes his own fingerprint. Why does that hurt?
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>> >The unnecessary descriptor space/bw?
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>>  
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>> This is something Virgil wanted because he thought self-connections were ugly.  If the
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>> penalizing of self-connections is found to be uglier than the self-connections themselves, we're
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>> both fine with removing it.
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> 
> Can this be downgraded to an informational message? (or eliminated entirely?)
> 
> Penalties can be quite discouraging, particularly for minor configuration variants.
> 
> Tim

I agree, and this one in particular is important to some operators: by allowing a relay to specify itself in the family, one can just have a single configuration file for all relays in a family. 

Tom

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