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For sponsor 55, I need to write a proposal that covers these objectives:

• O1.4 - Measure the number of Tor relays that support IPv6 reachability checks (#33051 (moved))
• O1.5 - Measure the number of connections, and consumed bandwidth, using IPv4 and IPv6 (#33052 (moved))

My current thinking is that:

• tor should log the number and consensus weight of relays that support IPv6 reachability checks, because we will need those numbers during testing
• these numbers are available in the consensus

Here's what the proposal requires:

• calculate relay IPv6 reachability numbers a few times during the project (we may as well use the tor logs)
• collect IPv6 connection and bandwidth statistics on tor relays
• calculate the IPv6 connection and bandwidth amounts a few times during the project

Here are some other useful things we might do:

• split the collected IPv6 statistics by client/relay
• calculate the guard-but-not-exit relays that support IPv6 client connections
• log IPv6 statistics in tor's heartbeat logs (we can't use these logs for our project reports, because they only show the local relay's statistics)
• calculate IPv6 reachability relay count and consensus weight on consensus-health
• add a pseudo-flag for relay IPv6 reachability support in Relay Search
• add metrics graphs that shows our progress on
  • IPv6 reachability
  • client IPv6 support on relays
  • IPv6 connections and bandwidth

We definitely won't have time to do all of these optional things, so we should priorise, once the essential work is done.