Gateway Solution for (throttled) Networking

[wesfloyd]

Opening this thread to discuss the goals for the upcoming Radius community grant related to researching solutions for a Bacalhau network gateway solution.

Goals:

• Enable some portion of traffic ingress/egress traffic between the Bacalhau network and the open internet. This capability would unlock many workloads and use cases for Bacalhau.
• Risk management of threats posed by open networking (e.g. botnet attacks).

Potential milestones:

• Research existing efforts malicious content and malicious behavior by other PLN technologies (IPFS, Filecoin, etc.)
• Research existing best practices among cloud providers to prevent use of their networks for botnet attacks (e.g. workload scanning, reputation, etc.).
• Create a proof of concept for a Bacalhau network gateway based on the research. This prototype could be in the form of code (PR), architecture diagrams, high level solution design, etc.

Open Questions:

• Which entity is best suited to determine which network traffic is approved and denied? PL, Bacalhau team, community moderation, etc.?
• What are the mechanisms by such approval would occur? Eg. the Akash (though only 'Experimental') has a central authority issue IP Leases (https://docs.akash.network/other-resources/experimental/ip-leases) and all traffic goes through a gateway. Are there other approaches?
• Are there benefits if the gateway solution is as decentralized, public, or trustless as the Filecoin network?