[zeveb]

> Okay so a deploy to prod should be able to require a stockholder voter?

Well, every deploy to production in any company is the result of a shareholder vote — it's just made obvious.

By using delegation and certificates, an employee who is delegated authority to deploy to production can do so without requiring a majority of shareholders to actually vote on that particular deploy.

That's pretty awesome.

> This sounds like a Utopian paradise not the realities of IT in 2016.

We've had the ability to do this for almost twenty years: it was made possible by RFCs 2692 & 2693 in 1999. The necessary processing could be performed in a split second.

[zzzcpan]

The system able to do that will have to be designed by someone and maintained by someone, because it cannot just appear out of thin air, work perfectly and never have bugs. So, ultimately there will be someones with enough power to change the way every single thing in the system operates and therefore enough power to destroy the system.

[brianwawok]

Agreed, it sounds like he shifted the blow up the world key from Engineers to a Board president.

Which is fine, but seems like a roundabout way to do it.