Post-incident accountability on decentralized compute platforms

Determine the actual post-incident enforcement and remediation mechanisms used by decentralized computing platforms when illegal actions have occurred, particularly in cases where users deploy critical applications handling highly confidential medical or financial data, once harm has already occurred.

Background

The paper contrasts centralized cloud governance—where providers like AWS can suspend accounts for illegal activities—with decentralized compute projects, where responsibilities are distributed among participants. The authors explicitly note uncertainty about what actually happens after illegal or harmful actions on such decentralized platforms.

Clarifying these post-incident processes would establish a baseline for comparing governance models across decentralized systems and contextualize Ratio1’s design choices (e.g., identity, licensing, and operator deactivation) intended to address this gap.