[tor-relays] Authority Nodes

niftybunny abuse-contact at to-surf-and-protect.net
Sat Jun 20 11:00:22 UTC 2020


I cant find any “no rabbit rule” in this. So I am eligible?

> On 20. Jun 2020, at 11:59, Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 07:10:43AM -0300, Vitor Milagres wrote:
>> I see the Authority Nodes are located only in North America and Europe.
>> I would like to contribute to the TOR network as much as possible. I am
>> currently running a node and I would like to make it an Authority Node as
>> well.
>> I am from Brazil and I believe it would possibly be a good idea to have a
>> new Authority Node in South America.
>> What are the requirements? What should I do to become one of them?
>> FYI, the node I am running is 79DFB0E1D79D1306AF03A4B094C55A576989ABD1
> 
> Thanks for your interest in running a directory authority! Long ago we
> wrote up a set of goals for new directory authorities:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/attic/authority-policy.txt
> 
> It is definitely an informal policy at this point, but it still gets
> across some of the requirements.
> 
> If you're able to run an exit relay at your location, that's definitely
> more useful than another directory authority at this point.
> 
> Also, because we haven't automated some steps, each new directory
> authority that we add means additional coordination complexity, especially
> when we identify misbehaving relays and need to bump them out of the
> network quickly.
> 
> Here are two big changes since that document:
> 
> (1) The directory authorities periodically find themselves needing to
> scale to quite large bandwidths -- sustaining 200mbit at a minimum,
> and being able to burst to 400mbit or 500mbit, is pretty much needed at
> this point:
> https://bugs.torproject.org/33018
> 
> (2) Tor ships with hundreds of hard-coded relays called Fallback
> Directories, which distribute the load for bootstrapping into the Tor
> network, and which also provide alternate access points if the main
> directory authorities are blocked.
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors
> So while the directory authorities are still a trust bottleneck,
> they are less of a performance bottleneck than they used to be.
> 
> In summary: if you want to run a directory authority, your next step
> is to join the Tor community, get to know us and get us to know you,
> come to one of the dev meetings (once the world is able to travel
> again), and see where things go from there.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Roger
> 
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