add some notes to proposal 117

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Nick Mathewson
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Filename: 117-ipv6-exits.txt
Title: IPv6 exits
Filename: 117-ipv6-exits.txtT
itle: IPv6 exits
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: coderman
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(RELAY_RESOLVE) should perform and respond with both A and AAAA
resources.
[NOTE: In a future version, it may make sense to .]
[NOTE: In a future version, when we extend the behavior of RESOLVE to
encapsulate more of real DNS, it will make sense to allow more
flexibility here. -nickm]
1.4. Client interaction with IPv6 exit capability
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connection will return IPv6 addresses when available, and fall back
to IPv4 addresses if not.
[NOTE: This means that SocksListenAddress and DNSListenAddress should
support IPv6 addresses. Perhaps there should also be a general option
to have listeners that default to 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 listen
additionally or instead on ::1 and :: -nickm]
1.4.3. MAPADDRESS behavior
The MAPADDRESS capability supports clients that may not be able to
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"The current codebase has no IPv6 support at all."
[NOTE: the EXITPOLICY end-cell reason says that it can hold an ipv4 or an
ipv6 address, but doesn't say how. We may want a separate EXITPOLICY2
type that can hold an ipv6 address, since the way we encode ipv6
addresses elsewhere ("0.0.0.0 indicates that the next 16 bytes are ipv6")
is a bit dumb. -nickm]
2.2. Directory specification
In '2.1. Router descriptor format' a new set of directives is needed
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the protocol and resolvers make this unappealing. Is there a
compelling reason to consider A6 as part of IPv6 exit support?
[IMO not till anybody needs it. -nickm]
3.2. IPv4 and IPv6 preference
The design above tries to infer a preference for IPv4 or IPv6