[tor-reports] Fwd: Nick's status report: What I did in July

[Karsten Loesing]

Hi Nick,

On 8/1/12 10:38 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> Due to other conversations, I owe the world a fair number of design
> documents and whatnot. In particular, I should write, or help somebody
> else write:
> [...]
>    * An improved design for how families should work

This one sounds interesting.  Once you have something written up, I'll
see if there's anything I can contribute, e.g., by running an analysis
how much families are used, how much they really help, etc.

> Jake had some neat ideas about how to use ASNs; if he doesn't write
> them up soon, I should try to remember what he said so there is some
> record of that stuff.

Same here.  Maybe I can help once these ideas are written up somewhere.

> I worked for a little bit on some of the possible ways to replace our
> use of the maxmind db.  In particular, I looked at the Software77 db a
> little bit, and wrote some scripts to check for geoip db overlap.  My
> results are at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6438 .

Finding a better GeoIP database sits on my TODO list, too.  I'll take a
look at your results once I get to that task, and I'll comment on that
ticket once I have some results myself.

Best,
Karsten