Re: Blockchain and Networking

[Alex White-Robinson <alexwr () gmail com>]

I'd be interested in applications around ownership of IP space or ASNs, but
there's so many ways to skin that cat already that people don't do because
it's 'hard' or 'reduces our flexibility' or sometimes because it involves
hardware upgrades as Christopher Morrow pointed out with RPKI and BGPsec.

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Fredrik Korsbäck <hugge () nordu net> wrote:

> On 2018-01-13 03:26, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 5:20 PM, <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:28:19 -0500, William Herrin said:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Dale W. Carder <dwcarder () es net>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Traceroute or any other path diagnostics comes to mind.
> > > That's not obvious to me. Assuming the time-exceeded message was modified
> > > > to include the necessary data, how would blockchain authenticate the
> > > > responding router?
> > >
> > > And do you really want to do *all* that on every single 'TTL Exceeded'
> > > ICMP?  Sounds like
> > > a *really* easy way to DDoS a router....
> > pish-posh! the asics will do it.
> Apparently we are not keeping up with the cool kids here.
>
> https://www.openct.io/
>
> * Open in the name
> * .IO TLD
> * A scrolling website
>
> It all checks out as a legitimate web3.0 biz
>
> ###########################################
>
> * Blockchain as a Transport (BaaT): BaaT leverages blockchain to create an
> architecture that can connect geographically dispersed Layer 2 islands over
> any available infrastructure, including the public Internet. As the
> resulting solution securely supports all kinds of traffic: Unicast,
> Multicast and Broadcast - BaaT will become the transport service of choice
> for all businesses.
>
> * Blockchain-Defined Wide Area Networks (BD-WAN): BD-WAN integrates
> blockchain with Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) for a secure, scalable
> virtualization of WAN transport technologies. Among the unique features
> (not available with most SD-WAN architectures):
>
> The ability to dynamically establish and tear down logical and physical
> circuits so customers pay only for what they consume.
>
> * Inter-Domain MPLS Traffic Engineering via blockchain (near zero time
> delay).
>
> Trusted per-usage billings that are verified and hard-coded over the
> blockchain.
>
> Full visibility and control over all transport facilities either via Fiber
> to the Premises (FTTP) or via partnership with key telco operators and
> metro Ethernet providers worldwide.
>
> Bringing public cloud and content services seamlessly to the customers'
> doorstep as part of the standard offering.
>
>
> ###########################################
>
>
> I wanna buy all of these stuff right now!
>
>
> --
> hugge