[tor-dev] Draft proposal -- no number yet: How to safely drop support for old clients.

2015-09-30 Thread Spencer
Hi, Nick Mathewson: Draft proposal -- no number yet: How to safely drop support for old clients. I feel like "safely" sounds too fluffy and not reflective of the proposal. - How to force-drop support for old clients. or - How to depreciate support for old clients. The secon

Re: [tor-dev] Draft proposal -- no number yet: How to safely drop support for old clients.

2015-09-30 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, comments inline. On 09/30/2015 12:01 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: Early versions of Tor checked the recommended-versions field in the directory to see whether they should keep running. If they didn't recognize you did the thing where you To override this, a Tor instance m

Re: [tor-dev] Draft proposal -- no number yet: How to safely drop support for old clients.

2015-09-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 30 Sep 2015, at 12:01, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > [This isn't done yet, but I've shown it to enough people that I should > share it with the list.] > > 1. Introduction and background > > 1.1. Motivation > > Frequently, we find that very old versions of Tor should no longer be > suppor

[tor-dev] Draft proposal -- no number yet: How to safely drop support for old clients.

2015-09-30 Thread Nick Mathewson
[This isn't done yet, but I've shown it to enough people that I should share it with the list.] 1. Introduction and background 1.1. Motivation Frequently, we find that very old versions of Tor should no longer be supported on the network. To remove relays is easy enough: we simply upda