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Be more specific about consensus method 26 changes.
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Expand Up @@ -2614,8 +2614,11 @@ The following methods have incorrect implementations; authorities SHOULD

Let weight_scale = 10000

Starting with consensus method 26, G, M, E, and D are initialized to 1.
Prior consensus methods initialize them to 0.
Starting with consensus method 26, G, M, E, and D are initialized to 1 and
T to 4. Prior consensus methods initialize them all to 0. With this change,
test tor networks that are small or new are much more likely to produce
bandwidth-weights in their consensus. The extra bandwidth has a negligible
impact on the bandwidth weights in the public tor network.

Let G be the total bandwidth for Guard-flagged nodes.
Let M be the total bandwidth for non-flagged nodes.
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