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hkt
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Does this achieve anything that signed announcements wouldn't?
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thebeastie
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The announcements have to live somewhere and the idea is to use a shared ledger ie a blockchain.
hkt
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The announcements are already peer to peer in BGP. Again, what does block chain add that eg, BGPsec (
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7353.txt
) does not?
notreallyserio
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Unless I missed it in that RFC document blockchain adds a shared ledger, as thebeastie mentioned. Aka an unalterable shared record of what changed, when, and by whom.
lottin
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> The announcements have to live somewhere
As opposed to living nowhere?
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