r16053@catbus: nickm | 2007-10-22 20:20:23 -0400

 Note that consensus-method is not a means for making backward-incompatible format changes.  Because any point that confuses Roger will *definitely* confuse many non-Roger readers of dir-spec.txt ;)

svn:r12112

diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
index ccdf08798ae764341e608b9d5550ca119c16640d..2920aef6ce30c30164eb875e67fc2b17a44ce3a4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
@@ -1086,6 +1086,12 @@ $Id$
    supported by more than 2/3 of the authorities voting.  If it supports this
    method, then it uses it.  Otherwise, it falls back to method 1.
 
+   (The consensuses generated by new methods must be parsable by
+   implementations that only understand the old methods, and must not cause
+   those implementations to compromise their anonymity.  This is a means for
+   making changes in the contents of consensus; not for making
+   backward-incompatible changes in their format.)
+
 3.5. Detached signatures
 
    Assuming full connectivity, every authority should compute and sign the