[tor-relays] Open call for proposals for improving the health of the Tor relay operator community and the Tor network

[Georg Koppen]

nusenu:
> I've got some practical experience with how things are (not) handled
> by the Tor Project in this space which discourages involvement.

That's unfortunate. What has been the problem with past 
proposal-handling? And how should it have been done differently?

> The past has also shown that proposals in this area are not
> handled as tor proposals in the sense of [1].

That is correct. Proposals in this space are not necessarily related to 
Tor proposals that aim to specify behavior at the Tor protocol level. 
There might be some, though, that could lead to changes in Tor which 
then would merit a respective proposal in the sense you linked to. 
However, that would be a follow-up task so that the network team gets a 
specification which they could then implement.

I've been explaining that at the relay operator meetup last Saturday, 
but "proposal" here is meant to be used in a broad sense: some text 
detailing an idea or recipe for improving the health of the operator 
community, providing our users a safer Tor network that way. We look for 
all sorts of inputs here: ideas that might be enforceable at some point 
or could lead to technical changes at the protocol level or aimed at 
strengthening non-technical aspects of our operator community or...

I hope this clarifies things a bit.

[snip]

Georg

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