load on the directory authorities. They announce this in their
descriptors.
- Each directory authorities periodically generates and signs a compact
+ Each directory authority periodically generates and signs a compact
"network status" document that lists that authority's view of the current
descriptors and status for known routers, but which does not include the
descriptors themselves.
entries, and a signature, in that order.
We use the same meta-format as used for directories and router descriptors
- in "tor-spec.txt". Impkementations Implementations MAY insert blank lines
+ in "tor-spec.txt". Implementations MAY insert blank lines
for clarity between sections; these blank lines are ignored.
Implementations MUST NOT depend on blank lines in any particular location.
For time-sensitive information, Tor implementations focus on "recent"
network-status documents. A network status is "recent" if it is live, and
- if it was published in the last 60 minutes. If there are fewer than fewer
+ if it was published in the last 60 minutes. If there are fewer
than 3 such documents, the most recently published 3 are "recent." If
there are fewer than 3 in all, all are "recent.")
network status documents. Clients SHOULD NOT use unlisted servers.
A server is "valid" if it is listed as valid by more than half of the live
- network-status documents. Clients SHOULD NOT non-valid servers unless
+ network-status documents. Clients SHOULD NOT use non-valid servers unless
specifically configured to do so.
A server is "running" if it is listed as running by more than half of the
identities, some directory servers bind names to IDs. Clients handle
names in two ways:
- When a client encountering a name it has not mapped before:
+ When a client encounters a name it has not mapped before:
- If all the live "Naming" networks-status documents the client has
- receive that the name binds to some identity ID, and the client has at
+ If all the live "Naming" network-status documents the client has
+ claim that the name binds to some identity ID, and the client has at
least three live network-status documents, the client maps the name to
ID.
- If a client is encountering a name it has mapped before:
+ If a client encounters a name it has mapped before:
It uses the last-mapped identity value, unless all of the "Naming"
network status documents that list the name bind it to some other