Re: [Din] blockchain for IP addresses draft update

[Jordi Paillissé Vilanova <[e-mail]>]

Hi David,

Indeed, we did not delve deeper into the PoS algorithm. This depends on 
the specific implementation, our opinion is that an Algroand-like would 
be a good option, and if it can tolerate a large portion of offline 
participants even better. In addition, we think that punishing or 
deposit mechanisms are not desirable because they don't fit the 
characteristics of the scenario. Overall the incentive is "a more secure 
Internet", we believe that this is well-aligned with the economical 
interests of the participants.

Regarding SCP, the fact that you only need to trust your neighbours may 
prove very convenient in this scenario. As you said, it reflects current 
Internet trust schemes, this basically means that BGP Peering = Trust = 
Stellar quorum slices. We'll look into this for the next iteration of 
the draft.

Thanks

Jordi


El 02/07/18 a les 17:59, David Mazieres ha escrit:
> Jordi Paillissé Vilanova <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>> (apologies for cross-posting)
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We have submitted a new version of the draft addressing comments
>> received both on the mailing list and IETF meetings.
>>
>> Thanks to all of you for taking the time to read the draft :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jordi
> Very interesting draft.  One high-level comment, I would avoid terms
> like "tamper-proof" or really anything-"proof" except possibly in the
> context of information-theoretic security, in favor of tamper-resistant.
> This is particularly important in the context of blockchains that have
> experienced a number of forks in practice and where it would likely take
> only a few tens of millions of dollars a day to tamper with history.
>
> I think the draft would benefit from a much finer-grained consideration
> of several different forms of proof-of-stake, because there are a number
> of assertions that do not hold for all forms of proof of stake.  E.g.,
> will there be delegation like peercoin, randomization like algorand,
> penalties like Casper, sleepy nodes like snowwhite?
>
> And while of course I'm biased on this issue, I think that a
> Byzantine-agreement-based approach like SCP
> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mazieres-dinrg-scp/) would work
> better than PoS.  SCP is well matched to the Internet peering model,
> which we already know is a workable decentralized governance model.  You
> may not agree, but it would at least be nice for the document to explain
> why you reject this approach.
>
> David