Client Identification and Developer's Throughput Problem

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PROBLEM:

Abuse and unauthorized usage of a developer’s throughput by an Application Client.

HOW:

If the protocol has no confirmation mechanism for each client using a developer’s throughput, then any client with the public Developer ID can utilize the allotted bandwidth.

TOPIC:

The Pocket Network protocol needs a way to confirm that an Application Client is from a specific developer.

DEFINITIONS:

Within the Pocket Ecosystem, an Application Client is any
person using an app built by an Application
Developer (defined in 3.1.2 of the whitepaper).

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You could use an access list(s), which has a list of lists of each approved address for an application client, while each address is registered through a KYC process, and could be administered through a proof of authority network, and each transaction through each address/account it signed with a private key (secured e.g. via ECDSA).

A more decentralised alternative would be a web of trust.

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