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At the moment, each authority decides what flags to assign to each node based on its own memory. This means that authorities that have been started recently have a different impression -- compared to more long-lived authorities -- about some relays .

Something that might make more sense is if authorities used past consensuses to get a better idea about the stability and speed of relays.

Since authorities don't keep past consensuses around, a way to do the above might be to create a script that each authority runs, downloads the past consensuses, calculates statistics about all nodes, and then it creates a file with those statistics. Then the authority loads that file, and uses it to update its knowledge base.

There might be better approaches.