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Hi Nick. Do we have v3 counterparts for the 'GETINFO ns/*' methods? From some quick experimentation...

• 'GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus' seems to provide the v3 network status document (same as cached-consensus). Is this the suggested method for reading the full v3 document?

• Based on their names I suspect that 'GETINFO dir/status/all' and 'GETINFO dir/status/fp/' should also provide network status information but they give me empty responses. I'm just guessing at their purpose since the control-spec doesn't actually say what any of the 'dir/' options do.

Is there a method to query the v3 router status entry for a particular relay (like there is for v2)?

Thanks! -Damian

20:38 < atagar> armadev: Speaking of nice things to have, are there v3 counterparts for the 
                'GETINFO ns/*' methods? It looks like 'GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus' 
                works though I'm not finding anything that lets you query for a single relay.
20:39 < atagar> I suspect that 'dir/status/fp/*' and 'dir/status/all' are for this purpose, but 
                they both give an empty response.
20:41 < armadev> atagar: i think the trouble is that each of these things is designed to query for 
                 a particular dir protocol version, and they all look like synonyms
20:41 < armadev> it's only going to get worse if we keep up the trend
20:43 < atagar> Agreed. There's "GETINFO network-status" which gives v1 network status information, 
                "GETINFO ns/*" for v2 status information, and "GETINFO 
                dir/status-vote/current/consensus" for v3 (?). Definitely confusing. :)
20:44 < atagar> Though at this point I'm just trying to figure out if individual relays can be 
                queried with v3 at all.
20:45 < armadev> atagar: it's very possible nobody implemented that yet.
20:46 < atagar> gotcha, thanks
20:46 < armadev> i suggest a new master way to query, with a defined algorithm for how it will 
                 always answer what you expected.
20:46 < armadev> (though the trouble is that 'what you expected' may well change in dir v4. 
                 whatever that will be.)
20:48 < atagar> The method of querying hasn't changed for a long while (it's always either 'all', 
                'by fignerprint', or 'by nickname'). Personally I think we should mark the present 
                GETINFO network status options as being deprecated and go with a scheme with the 
                version in it.
20:48 < armadev> that sounds good too
20:48 < atagar> Maybe something like 'GETINFO dir/ns/v3/fp/*'