Mapping business roles to blockchain roles
In the context of a business network, hosting a node comes with a set of responsibilities—both business and technical. Organizations need to ensure that they adequately secure their infrastructure, provide a satisfactory level of system availability, upgrade their software, deploy smart contracts, and, ultimately, support the business process implemented by the network.
Now, every organization of a business network is bound to be different. From a bank to a trucking company, they are all of varying shapes and sizes. As such, the technological solution should aim to reflect this reality. Can we expect a small or medium-sized organization to have the same IT capability as a large corporation?
Understanding the roles and relationships of each type of organization that is involved in a business network is important because it allows us to start defining a model that accounts for those differences. It ensures that they are...
