[tor-dev] Auto-senescence and/or CW penalty for a less outdated tor network?

2017-09-17 Thread nusenu
Hi, tl;dr: ideas to reduce the cw fraction that outdated relays make up of the tor network This email can be somewhat summarized by these three polls: https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/909356846900801536 https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/909359701908971520 https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/909

Re: [tor-dev] Auto-senescence and/or CW penalty for a less outdated tor network?

2017-09-17 Thread teor
Hi nusenu, This looks like it needs a proposal: I think we might have some similar proposals already. > On 17 Sep 2017, at 20:48, nusenu wrote: > > 1) Auto-senescence > --- I think automatic timed shutdown can be unhelpful or dangerous: * what if we need it earlier due to a sev

Re: [tor-dev] Auto-senescence and/or CW penalty for a less outdated tor network?

2017-09-18 Thread nusenu
>> 1) Auto-senescence >> --- > > I think automatic timed shutdown can be unhelpful or dangerous: Yes it reduces the number of options once such a feature would be implemented and deployed. > * what if we need it earlier due to a severe bug or mandatory feature? This should not b