From 5487a4eba1657bef324f964c3c8a4d80e055a59e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dimitri Staessens Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:11:09 +0200 Subject: blog: Add a short TL;DR to the RINA blog post --- content/en/blog/20210320-ouroboros-rina.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/en/blog/20210320-ouroboros-rina.md b/content/en/blog/20210320-ouroboros-rina.md index 3b3940d..d16c49f 100644 --- a/content/en/blog/20210320-ouroboros-rina.md +++ b/content/en/blog/20210320-ouroboros-rina.md @@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ may change in the future. These are my -- inevitably subjective and undoubtedly somewhat inaccurate -- recollections of how it went down, why Ouroboros exists, and how it's different from RINA. +If you're in a hurry, this is the TL;DR: We spent 4-5 years +researching RINA in EU-funded projects and understand its concepts and +ideas very well. However, we looked beyond the premises and the +us-vs-them mentality of the RINA community and areas for improvement +and further simplification. And more than a couple of things in RINA +that are just plain-old wrong. While RINA insiders may suggest that +Ouroboros is 'RINA-inspired' or use some other phrasing that +insinuates our prototype is an inferior design or some watered down +version of RINA: it is not, to the contrary, Ouroboros is the diamond +to RINA's graphite. + And a quick note here: Ouroboros _the network prototype_ has no relation to Ouroboros _the Proof-of-Stake protocol_ in the Cardano blockchain. That some of the Cardano guys are also interested in RINA @@ -882,6 +893,10 @@ at the university were numbered, it was time to move on, and I was either leaving after submitting a publication on Ouroboros, or without a publication on Ouroboros. +In May 2018 there was another RINA workshop, where I presented +Ouroboros. The feedback I got from John was characteristically short: +_It's stupid_. + We finished the experiments for ARCFIRE, but as with PRISTINE, the results were not accepted for publication. During the writing of the paper, a final realization came. We had implemented our link-state -- cgit v1.2.3