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ddevogel
ddevogel

Reputation: 123

Hyperledger participation without hosting a peer node

We are looking to implement a hyperledger-fabric solution and I'm stumped by this fundamental question. How is a hyperledger solution architected if not all participants are able/willing to host a peer node?

Our users are divided into 2 groups - payers and providers. Most of our providers are willing and have the IT infrastructure required to host a peer node. Many of our payers are/do not.

From the perspective of a payer participant how can I trust the system if I'm not a peer and don't have my own copy of the ledger? What options might we have in setting up a hyperledger environment that allows them to participate?

Apologies if I have missed the point or some documentation that describes this scenario but links to it would be most welcome.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (1)

Gari Singh
Gari Singh

Reputation: 12053

The easiest "trust assumption" is for groups which don't run peers to trust a specific member who is running a peer. For submitting transactions, it really does not matter if you run a node or not ... you would likely care about the endorsement policy in effect to make sure that there is not one all powerful member with a peer, but other than that you submit to multiple peers for endorsement anyway. For querying data, as mentioned you might have affinity / trust for one particular member, you might select a random or majority set of peers and do a "strong read". A query is still an invoke so you can actually query multiple peers in the same call.

Upvotes: 3

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