Dear all, We have updated our draft outlining the impact of (permissionless) DLTs on provider networks; this is a smaller update before we will look into adding more experimental insights into it for a next revision.
One area where our insights may be useful is for considerations of DLT use in network functions, as discussed in the DLT in BGP draft (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcbride-rtgwg-bgp-blockchain/). At this stage, I would like to invite possible contributors to, e.g., insights or also possible network technologies that may reduce such impact. We see the latter aspect as most directly related to possible RTG WG work and interest. Any comments on this work are warmly welcome. Best, Dirk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: 30 August 2022 11:49 To: David Guzman <[email protected]>; Dirk Trossen <[email protected]>; Mike Mc Bride <[email protected]>; Mike McBride <[email protected]>; Xinxin Fan <[email protected]> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts-02.txt A new version of I-D, draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts-02.txt has been successfully submitted by Dirk Trossen and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts Revision: 02 Title: Impact of DLTs on Provider Networks Document date: 2022-08-30 Group: Individual Submission Pages: 19 URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts-02.txt Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts/ Htmlized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts Diff: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-trossen-rtgwg-impact-of-dlts-02 Abstract: This document discusses the impact of distributed ledger technologies being realized over IP-based provider networks. The focus here lies on the impact that the DLT communication patterns have on efficiency of resource usage in the underlying networks. We provide initial insights into experimental results to quantify this impact in terms of inefficient and wasted communication, aligned along challenges that the DLT realization over IP networks faces. This document intends to outline this impact but also opportunities for network innovations to improve on the identified impact as well as the overall service quality. While this document does not promote specific solutions that capture those opportunities, it invites the wider community working on DLT and network solutions alike to contribute to the insights in this document to aid future research and development into possible solution concepts and technologies. The findings presented here have first been reported within the similarly titled whitepaper released by the Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) [IIC_whitepaper]. The IETF Secretariat _______________________________________________ rtgwg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtgwg
