Proof of Authority Consensus Algorithm

[masonforest]

Title

  OIP: 1002
  Title: Proof of Authority  Consensus Algorithm 
  Author: Mason Fischer <mason@kissr.co>
  Status: Draft
  Type: Standard
  Layer: Consensus
  Created: 2018-04-04

Abstract

We need to implement Proof of Authority consensus in Exthereum so Exthereum can run in the PoA network.

Specification

Technical Specification: https://github.com/paritytech/wiki/blob/master/Aura.md
Reference implementation: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/tree/master/ethcore/src/engines/authority_round

[hayesgm]

Question: do we currently implement any consensus mechanisms? Do we know where this would fit in to the current code-base?

[masonforest]

do we currently implement any consensus mechanisms?

Not that I know of so yeah, we'd have to figure out where where this fits in to the exiting codebase.

[hayesgm]

Yeah, it's likely near the boarder of ExWire and Blockchain. Blockchain was meant to (and generally still is) the piece that takes blocks and collects them together into a chain. ExWire is the piece which asks for new blocks from the network. Blockchain (I think) is the right place to decide what is the best block based on some rules.