For those interested in further discussion of Internet-level Consensus (ILC) following my talk at the SAAG open meeting, let's meet at 7:30pm at Amuse, the bar inside Swissotel right near the lobby.
David David Mazieres <[email protected]> writes: > I'll be giving the following 30-minute talk during the saag session at > the upcoming IETF meeting in Chicago, likely followed by a "bar bof" on > Internet-level consensus that evening. > > > Internet-Level Consensus is Practical > > David Mazières > > Security Area Open Meeting > Thursday March 30, 2017 15:20-17:20 > Zurich D room > > Consensus is the problem of agreeing on a valid input value among > members of a distributed system. Internet-level consensus extends the > concept to global agreement, despite the fact that the Internet has no > meaningful notion of membership. This talk will report on the Stellar > consensus protocol (SCP), an existence proof that secure consensus > does not require well-defined membership. SCP's key idea is for > individual participants to decide for themselves which other > participants they cannot afford to diverge from. SCP guarantees > agreement so long as there is transitive overlap in these > dependencies. SCP is in production use by the Stellar payment > network, but has broader potential applications ranging from secure > package distribution to key management in end-to-end email encryption. _______________________________________________ Trans mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/trans
