Blockchain and Networking

• Subject: Blockchain and Networking
• From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)
• Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 11:22:22 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <CAEqndoqeWBZ-ogpcagmppy+7=HSTbZg3gZXVQFRe6=Rzmh3Ouw@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:07 AM, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> How about validating whether a given AS is an acceptable origin for a set
>> of prefixes?
>
>
That's a job for ordinary PKI. Any time you have a trusted central
authority to serve as an anchor, ordinary PKI works fine. The RIRs serve as
anchors for who has the right to authorize which prefixes.

A harder task is validating whether your peer is part of a legitimate AS
path to that origin. It's not obvious to me that blockchain could help
solve that problem, but it's at least a problem that isn't solved by
ordinary PKI.


Now, if we wanted to replace the RIRs and allow people to self-assign IPv6
addresses out of ULA space which we'd then honor in the global BGP table,
blockchain could have a role.

-Bill


-- 
William Herrin ................ herrin at dirtside.com  bill at herrin.us
Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>

• Follow-Ups:
  • Blockchain and Networking
    • From: morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)
  • Blockchain and Networking
    • From: mysidia at gmail.com (Jimmy Hess)

• References:
  • Blockchain and Networking
    • From: alter3d at alter3d.ca (Peter Kristolaitis)
  • Blockchain and Networking
    • From: johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)
  • Blockchain and Networking
    • From: johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)

• Prev by Date: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?
• Next by Date: Blockchain and Networking
• Previous by thread: Blockchain and Networking
• Next by thread: Blockchain and Networking
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread