Summary
Improve Provider trust and reduce spam by accreditation using a Web of Trust (WoT) System for Providers.
Motivation
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.
Rationale
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.
Specification
- 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).
Copyright
All content herein is licensed under Apache 2.0.