Certification of Services on top of NXT

[ChuckOne]

Concern

Services build on top of NXT can be build in a non-decentralized fashion (see jl777 work). User can get attached to it very easily. If these services break for whatever reason, NXT will be blamed.

Do we need to certify of several properties (not complete): 1) decentralization 2) risk assessment 3) environmental assessment

The certificate can be used to assess its relationship to NXT and how trustworthy is can be.

[ChuckOne]

I would like to add my personal opinion about jl777's work. Maybe, he would not like it, but it reflects my concern pretty well. I think as much as I appreciate his ambition and effort, he does not value decentralization as NXT requires it. His proposals always contain non-technical components of trust. A technical component of trust is an open algorithm. A non-technical component of trust is an alien server/account etc.

I would therefore require his projects to be funded a deeper assessment and certification.

Based on that, the certification process can be applied to all the other services which could draw/lock people in and which have a lack of 'real' decentralization.

If I am wrong, please correct me.

[marcus03]

Regarding jl777's work, these could have been my words...

I think if he would actually listens to valid critizism, he will do great things for NXT. I am however very opposed to his ideas when they are build on centralized and trustfull architectures. IMO he is taking shortcuts, which I think will backfire.

Regarding certification, that's a good idea, but maybe a bit early. Regarding james work specificly, we still have to see if they show up in production. I consider the criticism in the monster thread a form of certification.

I'd say, lets wait a bit.

It would also be a joint-venture of InfCom and DevCom (at least).

Others properties I can think of: Open-Sourced

[Ian Ravenscroft]

Need at least a solution blueprint and an audit of it.... i also would like to see the 3 server solution turned into an N+1, N+2 solution where we can have N+1 servers but only N are needed to successfully perform the function... One of us may have to collect James posts and write the blueprint though :)