Caches and authorities must still support older versions of the
directory protocols, until the versions of Tor that require them are
- finally out of commission. See Section XXXX on backward compatibility.
+ finally out of commission.
This document merges and supersedes the following proposals:
All directory information is uploaded and downloaded with HTTP.
[Authorities also generate and caches also cache documents produced and
- used by earlier versions of this protocol; see section XXX for notes.]
+ used by earlier versions of this protocol; see dir-spec-v1.txt and
+ dir-spec-v2.txt for notes on those versions.]
1.1. What's different from version 2?
generate exactly the same consensus given the same set of votes.
The procedure for deciding when to generate vote and consensus status
- documents are described in section XXX below.
+ documents are described in section 1.4 on the voting timeline.
Status documents contain a preamble, an authority section, a list of
router status entries, and one or more footer signature, in that order.