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Network status documents (aka votes , the consensus , and router
status entries they contain) are created by the directory authorities .
For a great overview on how this works see Jordan Wright's article on how
the consensus is made . Microdescriptors are merely a distilled copy of a server descriptor ,
and so belong to the first camp.