Commit ac552473 authored by Steven Murdoch's avatar Steven Murdoch Committed by Roger Dingledine
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Integrate more feedback from IRC 

- For now we are only talking about moving clients to be bridges

- Some questions on how we should inform users
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doc/spec/proposals/ideas/xxx-automatic-node-promotion.txt

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   preferences. The proposal also defines the new controller messages

   and options which will control this process.



   Note that for the moment, only transitions between client and

   bridge are being considered. Transitions to public relay will

   be considered at a future date, but will use the same

   infrastructure for measuring capacity and reliability.



2. Motivation and history



   Tor has a growing user-base and one of the major impediments to the
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   - Perhaps the bridge authority should tell potential bridges

     whether to enable themselves, by taking into account whether

     their IP address is blocked



   - How do we explain the possible risks of running a bridge/relay

     * Use of bandwidth/congestion

     * Publication of IP address

     * Blocking from IRC (even for non-exit relays)



   - What feedback should we give to bridge relays, to encourage then

     e.g. number of recent users (what about reserve bridges)?