LOL this requirement: - Should be run by somebody that Tor (i.e. Roger) knows.
One thing that I think would help Tor a lot and have seen some discussions on, would be a better 'trustworthy' way to measure bandwidth. I know it's measured a couple of different ways now, with 'observed' bandwidth and some testing/probing from the directory authorities, but as outlined in your e-mail adding more directory authorities is a tedious process at best, so is there a way that something could be set up where Tor maintainers could put a flag manually on a relay to indicate that it can and should, initiate bandwidth tests and report them back to the actual authorities? Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 http://ecansol.com On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:59 AM Roger Dingledine <a...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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