Thank you all for your informative answers! Steff
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 12:19, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: > >Looking through the various answers here, I note that someone has > >mentioned the need for some kind of security, so that others cannot > >trigger actions they are not supposed to. > >I think those security issues conflict with your requirement to run > >synchronisation without any authorisation. > > I don't think that's a given. As long as the participants in this > synchronization network can establish and maintain trust with one another, > that should be fine even if none of them are particularly trusted by > anything else outside their circle. Metaphorically it's like a secret > society. DLTs (Blockchain networks) generally operate this way, for > example. (I'm not necessarily suggesting a DLT-based approach in this > case.) > > Have we learned yet whether or not it's acceptable if this synchronization > network provides different answers if you ask different nodes the same > question at exactly the same time? For example, if you have a 3 node > network then hypothetically you could ask a question and if a majority of > the nodes (2 out of 3) agree on a common answer, that's a valid answer. As > another example, if the "truth" is 5 minutes out of date, that's OK, and a > node will take some action if it isn't able to check in with its peers and > maintain truth-consensus within 5 minute intervals. > > ....There are a LOT of possible options. > > - - - - - - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > I.T. Architect Executive > Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions > IBM Z & LinuxONE > - - - - - - - - - - > E-Mail: [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
