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Commit b8f1be53 authored by Damian Johnson's avatar Damian Johnson
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Document unit for consensus bandwidth fields

My understanding is that bandwidth authority metrics were unit-less back in its
TorFlow days (per discussions I had with Mike and Roger many years ago), but
evidently this is no longer the case. Adopting the wording teor suggested...

  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29715
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......@@ -549,9 +549,9 @@ class RouterStatusEntryV3(RouterStatusEntry):
:var str identifier: base64 encoded identity digest
:var str digest: **\*** router's upper-case hex digest
:var int bandwidth: bandwidth measured to be available by the relay, this is a
unit-less heuristic generated by the Bandwidth authoritites to weight relay
selection
:var int bandwidth: bandwidth measured to be available by the relay, this is
an arbitrary units (currently kilobytes per second) heuristic generated by
the Bandwidth authoritites to weight relay selection
:var int measured: *bandwidth* vote provided by a bandwidth authority
:var bool is_unmeasured: *bandwidth* measurement isn't based on three or more
measurements
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