Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable blockchain systems
Thomas Hardjono <hardjono@mit.edu> Mon, 04 June 2018 19:17 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable blockchain systems
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>>> From: crowcroft@gmail.com [crowcroft@gmail.com] >>> ... >>> so for inter-ledger type thinking, we're connecting systems >>> that fundamentally care about consistency - but define its >>> eventuality differently - so a basic building block of an >>> interoperabilty or inter-domain protocol would be to >>> convey (and somehow reconcile) that variation in notion >>> of how long before we agree about an append in domain 1, >>> when were' 5 ledger domain hops away... Jon, this is excellent. I've been struggling to find words to use for what you refer to as "consistency", particularly with regards to the end-state ("eventuality"). I'm assuming that at a high level, the "eventuality" is defined as some data-string being recorded on the ledger of a BC (i.e. all distributed P2P nodes of the BC). As you correctly intuited, the consistency-problem is more difficult for cross-ledger transactions. A simple example with 1 entity only: Alice wants to "move" her registered land-deed from BC1 to BC2 (direct, no hops). -- How many transactions does Alice's Application need to transmit? (one only to BC1; or one each to BC1 and BC2; or three: BC1; BC2 and then BC1 again). Any thoughts how how to define "consistency" more specific/technically? -- thomas -- ________________________________________ From: crowcroft@gmail.com [crowcroft@gmail.com] on behalf of Jon Crowcroft [jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2018 10:12 AM To: Thomas Hardjono Cc: din@irtf.org Subject: Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable blockchain systems looks sane (as did interledger) but we're missing (I think, but may be I missed it too) one of the big challenges for this compared with scaling (which is what you have to address in internetworking stuff whether subnetworks with IP or IGPs with BGP, or serice+content with WWW - that's a fundamentally difficult piece of distributed ledgers- consistency one thing the e2e model did for thinking (amongst many) was to think in an intensely relaxed way about consistency - IP doesn't care if the source is still where it was when the packet reaches the destination (or even first hop router. BGP doesn't care (much) about IGP convergance when announcing (or withdrawing) prefixes and (most) AS paths. WWW doesn't care if the remote page (server, site or content) are there when you add a URL to your site - all this is "fixed up later" by some eventual consistency protocol (in IPs case, TCP; in the IGP/BGPs case the linkstate and path vector and a lot of magic pixie dust and luck; in the WWW case, search/rank&shame and later maintenance) - so for inter-ledger type thinking, we're connecting systems that fundamentally care about consistency - but define its eventuality differently - so a basic building block of an interoperabilty or inter-domain protocol would be to convey (and somehow reconcile) that variation in notion of how long before we agree about an append in domain 1, when were' 5 ledger domain hops away... which reminds me, am I allowed to coin that term "ledgerdomain" ? :-) On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Thomas Hardjono <hardjono@mit.edu<mailto:hardjono@mit.edu>> wrote: Here is a question I'd like to throw out to this community regarding "interoperable blockchain systems" -- a topic which will undoubtedly come to the forefront (assuming it doesn't get drowned-out or killed by the barrage of hype about BC): -- Minimal assumption: What is the minimal assumption for interoperable blockchain systems with regards to the notion of transaction units. In other words, what is the “datagram” equivalent of transactions – namely the transaction unit that is semantically understandable (processable) by multiple different blockchain systems. This is a question we posed in our recent discussion paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.05934.pdf Would love to get your thoughts on this "datagram" equivalent question (or if this framework of thought is even the correct one). Best -- thomas -- _______________________________________________ Din mailing list Din@irtf.org<mailto:Din@irtf.org> https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/din
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- Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable bl… Jehan Tremback
- Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable bl… Jon Crowcroft
- Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable bl… Arjuna Sathiaseelan
- Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable bl… Thomas Hardjono
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- Re: [Din] Minimal assumption for interoperable bl… Jon Crowcroft