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Title
Replacing BGP in 4 easy steps - The PKT long game
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30-40 min
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Description of your talk
BGP is without a doubt one of the greatest decentralized protocols ever devised, the use of friend-to-friend links, peering relationships, and filters combine to leverage human and machine capabilities in a truly unique way, and it should be required study for anyone wanting to create a decentralized protocol of their own. But our expectations of BGP are simply unreasonable: Take for example IP addresses, these are essentially virtual property and today we would never consider using anything short of a blockchain -- yet BGP is able to handle this, and it does so with near perfection. Furthermore as the internet scales, our expectations will only become more and more unreasonable.
In 1999 there were 5000 Autonomous Systems (ISPs) speaking the BGP protocol, in 2008 the number had grown to 30000, in the following ten years it would double, but in the last 2 years it grew by 50% and is over 90000 now. But still just under half of the world has no internet at all, and only 15% have what is considered "broadband".
The internet has probably been the biggest single force for individual liberation since the printing press, but in order to bring competitive access to the whole world I estimate we will need hundreds of millions of Autonomous Systems, not just hundreds of thousands. So we are in a dilemma: BGP cannot take us where we need to go, but nobody knows what will.
Here I will present the PKT project which is founded on a simple yet radical idea: What if we separated the physical role of hardware operation from the technical role of network engineering? Becoming an infrastructure provider would be no more difficult than pointing an antenna, and everybody would have their choice of thousands of "Virtual ISPs" who build their networks from bandwidth leased in a decentralized bandwidth market. It will be like choosing from any phone company in the world, and everyone is roaming all of the time.
Of course a project of this scope must be rolled out in steps, and I will present the steps which will go into making this a reality.
- We will start with a VPN marketplace because the very existence of VPNs represents the need for better network technology.
- Then we will enable smart internet sharing and mesh networking with the Virtual ISP service to optimize those networks.
- Then we will tokenize bandwidth so that we can establish a true decentralized bandwidth market.
- Then we will begin developing high capacity routing hardware to take the network back to the datacenter.
About you
- Name: Caleb James DeLisle
- Matrix handle: @cjdelisle:m.trnsz.com
- Other contact info: cjd.cjdns@fr
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