Re: IETF Chair

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 07:00:49PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:01 PM Michael Thomas <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 10/14/20 12:16 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
> > >> But 90% of the efforts of the academy and 99% of those of commerce are
> > focused on
> > >> the Blockchain, an integrity technology.
> > > It's worse than that, because not only is most of the effort placed on
> > > blockchain technology, blockchain technology is also being pushed as
> > > the answer to *everything*.  Blockchain technology has a place, but it
> > > doesn't make sense everywhere, and when one says, "Wait, let's take a
> > > step back and look at what we really *need* blockchains for, and where
> > > we don't," then one seems a heretic... or at best, quaintly naïve.
> >
> > What place might that be? I really can't think of any. Maybe you can use
> > it for buying and selling tulips.
> >
> > Mike
> 
> 
> Every day thousands of courts are presented with digital evidence, pretty
> much all of which should be excluded because it is far too easy to tamper
> with. I have spent days engaged in pointless arguments over
> admissibility that could be avoided entirely.
> 
> Every piece of digital evidence that is collected should be time stamped at
> the time it is collected and enrolled in a notary service using a one way
> sequence. At regular intervals, the notary offering this service should
> cross notarize with other notary services, thus making it impossible for
> any one notary to defect without detection unless every other notary
> colludes. And NIST and every other national lab should run a national cross
> notary service whose probity would be automatically considered valid by the
> courts of that country.
> 
> That is not the sort of construct I see being built in blockchain land.
> Noooo, much more fun selling virtual cowrie shells. But it is exactly the
> sort of infrastructure we need.

Yup, that would be swell.  Too bad I don't have a budget to help make it
happen.

-Ben