| aep | title | author | status | type | category | created | completed | roadmap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9 |
Trusted Providers |
Greg Osuri (@gosuri), Adam Bozanich (@boz) |
Final |
Standard |
Core |
2020-03-09 |
2021-02-17 |
minor |
Improve Provider trust and reduce spam by accreditation using a Web of Trust (WoT) System for Providers.
Akash is a permission-less network where any tenant (with a valid key) can consume computing services from any provider that has sufficient computing power in a peer-to-peer manner disintermediating a broker. This brings a challenge for filtering out bad actors. We propose a mechanism where tenants can delegate the attestation to a trusted third-party -- using a PGP inspired, Web of Trust (WoT) system -- with an ability for Tenants to selectively deploy to such trusted providers.
Akash is a permission-less network where any tenant (with a valid key) can consume computing services from any provider that has the sufficient computing power in a peer-to-peer manner disintermediating a broker. This provides a challenge for filtering out bad actors. We propose a system where the Tenant can delegate the attestation to a trusted third-party (Oracle) with an ability for tenants to deploy to such trusted providers selectively.
- The Accreditor is a publicly trusted third-party where there is pre-established trust with the Provider and Tenant. Anyone with enough public trust can be an accreditor on Akash without needing permission. A PGP web of trust model could be adopted.
- The Accreditor publishes a signed map of trusted providers and attributes on to the chain.
- The Tenant specifies the authority (public key of Accreditor) in deployment manifest along with attributes to be verified.
- The system then limits the auction only to the trusted providers verified by the Accreditor (authority).
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