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More clarifications to xxx-geoip-survey-plan.txt.
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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Motivation
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Goals
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We want to know about how many Tor users there are, and which
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We want to know approximately how many Tor users there are, and which
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countries they're in, even in the presence of a hypothetical
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"directory guard" feature. Some uncertainty is okay, but we'd like
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to be able to put a bound on the uncertainty.
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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Methods for curent clients:
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[In both of the above cases, clients choose a running
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directory cache at random with odds roughly proportional to
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its bandwidth.]
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its bandwidth. If they're just starting, they know a ]
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- In some future version, clients will choose directory caches
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to serve as their "directory guards" to avoid profiling
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@ -82,15 +82,21 @@ Methods for curent clients:
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Notes:
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- [Over H hours, the N for V2 clients is 2*H, and the N for V3
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clients is currently around N/2 or N/3. [***FIGURE THIS
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OUT***XXXX]]
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clients is currently around N/2 or N/3.]
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- (We should only count requests that we actually intend to answer;
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503 requests shouldn't count.)
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- These measurements *shouldn't* be taken at directory
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authorities: their picture of the network is too skewed by the
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special cases in which clients fetch from them directly.
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- These measurements should also be be taken at a directory
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authority if possible: their picture of the network is skewed
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by clients that fetch from them directly. These clients,
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however, are all the clients that are just bootstrapping
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(assuming that the fallback-consensus feature isn't yet used
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much).
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- These measurements also overestimate the V2 download rate if
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some downloads fail and clients retry them later after backing
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off.
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Methods for directory guards:
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