Re: [icnrg] This view on web3has some interesting ties to ICN

[Dirk Kutscher <[e-mail]>]

> - I’m increasingly convinced that a first order deterrent to this kind of decentralization is the very small number of entities any individual is able to assess trust in. I suspect it’s somewhere between 5 and 25; not thousands or millions. Sure, I don’t want to be forced to trust just one or two financial institutions, or just my national government bureaucracy, or the small set of Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Alibaba, etc. but how to I navigate assessing a giant number of trust roots? It seems at least superficially that web-of-trust approaches should work swimmingly well here, but we have 30 years of abject failure (e.g. PGP/GPG) in getting these adopted and maintained in practice.

Yes, I agree – we have to move beyond simplistic scenarios or the assumption that simply applying web of trust concepts will save us.

> - If you find the point above modestly convincing, then current proven and reasonably efficient K-out-of-N keying schemes for enabling modestly-sized trusted intermediary sets, and Byzantine fault tolerant agreement protocols for distributed databases seem quite sufficient for all these use cases.
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> Nice New Year ICN discussion topic, no?

Absolutely. The devil is going to be in the details, e.g., robustness against all kinds of attacks, but I'd love to see more research in this space.

Dirk