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- How complicated is setting up a Blockchain
- If the effort is too high then we may not have resources to implement
- Do we have the resources?
- The transition cost could be large
- Do all MAs have to participate,
- this is probably not practical since many MAs have little or no resources for this type of effort/transition.
- If only say Gzhu, Ubru and SLAC MAs participate, is this sufficient redundancy?
- It might simplify the data deployment
- Tieing PingER to Blockchain could increase the interest and resources in the PingER project
- Blockchains are a hot topic today.
- Stanford has created a Blockchain Institute, see https://www.bitrates.com/news/p/stanford-has-announced-their-new-world-class-center-for-blockchain-research
- Many universities are pursuing Blockchain see https://www.accounting-degree.org/college-cryptocurrency-blockchain-courses/
- Get students interested and writing papers
- get access to MS and PhD students
- What is Saqib's situation (Saqib can you weigh in here):
- Duration at Gzhu
- Access to students to work on blockchain for PingER
- Interest in working on Items 1 or 2 (or both) above?
- How to transition from today's centralized on SLAC to a more distributed Blockchain implementation
- Will need to continue current PingER while new Blockchain implementation is being developed, made robust and complete
- Will need web interfaces to the data and new mechanisms
- What about the analysis, presentation?
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