A variety of mechanisms have been developed and deployed over the
years to secure BGP including the more recent RPKI/ROA mechanisms.
Is it also possible to use a distributed ledger such as Blockchain to
secure BGP? BGP provides decentralized connectivity across the
Internet. Blockchain provides decentralized secure transactions in a
append-only, tamper-resistant ledger. This document reviews possible
opportunities of using Blockchain to secure BGP policies within a
domain and across the global Internet. We propose that BGP data
could be placed in a blockchain and smart contracts can control how
the data is managed. This could create a single source of truth,
something for which blockchains are particularly well suited.
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