The sad thing about this post is that there are much better developed visions of using blockchain as an index for internet routing:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240595952...
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8751229
I’m pretty sure there are non academic projects too but I can’t find them atm.
Fyi: This is an "internet draft". Anyone can write one and get it published with little to no review.
They failed to publish that draft on 1st and only published it on 27th. This makes the obvious joke about blockchain being useful a bit obscure.
Does this achieve anything that signed announcements wouldn't?
This is great! I’ve been thinking a lot about the web PKI and I’m convinced that the future is a blockchain there. The current situation just doesn’t make sense, where too many CAs have powers to mess up and revocation barely work. And sometimes we can detect some of the attacks, instead of preventing them. In the future we’ll have a public registry implemented as a blockchain where browsers will receive light zero-knowledge proof of non-revoked certificate inclusion.
I pressed CTRL-F in my browser to search for the term "April Fools" in this RFC and I was extremely disappointed that there was no results.
Well, after reading a bit of it I can safely say that is completely moronic and it makes complete sense that it was written by someone at Futurewei.
hard pass
I think BGP protocol is an excellent use case for blockchain
Seems like they started with ‘How can I apply a blockchain to the problem?’ instead of ‘What is the best way to solve this problem?’. It’s easy to do, focusing on the interesting tech instead of the actual business problem.