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Filename: 108-mtbf-based-stability.txt
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Title: Base "Stable" Flag on Mean Time Between Failures
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Version: $Revision: 12105 $
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Last-Modified: $Date: 2007-01-30T07:50:01.643717Z $
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Author: Nick Mathewson
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Created:
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Status: Open
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Overview:
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This document proposes that we change how directory authorities set the
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stability flag from inspection of routers declared Uptime to the
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authorities' perceived mean time between failure for the router.
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Motivation:
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Clients prefer nodes that the authorities call Stable. This flags are (as
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of 0.2.0.0-alpha-dev) set entirely based on the nodes' declared values for
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uptime. This creates an opportunity for malicious nodes to declare
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falsely high uptimes in order to get more traffic.
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Spec changes:
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Instead of setting the current rule for setting the Stable flag:
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"An authority should call a server Stable if its observed MTBF for
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the past month is at or above the median MTBF for Valid servers.
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MTBF shall be defined as the mean length of the runs observed by a
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given directory authority. A run begins when an authority decides
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that the server is Running, and ends when the authority decides that
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the server is not Running. In-progress runs are counted when
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measuring MTBF."
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Issues:
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How do you define a clipped MTBF? If the current month begins with one
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day at the end of a one-year uptime, and then has 29 days of uptime, do we
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average one day and 29 days? Or do we average one year and 29 days? Or
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take 29 days on its own and discard the year?
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Surely somebody has done this kinds of thing before.
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