The potential is there to go a step beyond replacing RPKI, as a blockchain could be the AS number authority itself, thus eliminating the need to have any centralized organizations for tracking and managing number resource assignments. I am a long-time follower and fan of Bitcoin and I have a lot of skepticism of most of the ideas for using blockchain tech for other
On 1/23/2018 6:17 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: things. They seem like ill-thought-out solutions in search of a problem. HOWEVER, various Internet/number authorities are sometimes a big point of contention, subject to government pressure, etc, and this is one case where I can see a trustless, distributed blockchain architecture actually improving things. I think your email (not just the quoted part) was a good insight on the subject. --Brock