Ah yes a completely centralized system that scales, who would have thought.
(For the pedantic, it's not exactly centralized nor federated since each airline treats their view of the world as absolutely correct)
Ah yes a completely centralized system that scales, who would have thought.
(For the pedantic, it's not exactly centralized nor federated since each airline treats their view of the world as absolutely correct)
It’s not decentralized either, at least not in the Bitcoin sense of the word. Interactions between participants may be automated but they can ultimately rely on legal contracts and people. IATA is one of those participants, but everyone has to trust IATA in the airline industry because of their role. A decentralized airline system built to avoid trust in a central authority would be pretty different (actually the booking part may be the least of their problems there).
It probably doesn’t require consensus among all participants (pairwise consensus at every step should be fine), so there is very likely no voting.
It’s not even permissionless. It’s not like a random company could join this “chain” simply because they can generate a keypair.
It’s a fundamentally different problem, and it makes sense that the architecture is different.