Background

Below there is a part of code with initial configuration of the World State View, which each pear peer executes on startup. Initially there was a plan to move this logic into the genesis block functionality and transform it into several Iroha Special Instruction.

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1. For public blockchains it would be reasonable to the execute a transaction for the root user to remove itself after all initial setup is done.
2. For private blockchains the user may remain for some system administration related work.

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• Every Iroha Peer starts with "root@global" Account with `DoAnything` permission

Alternatives

Provide instructions or instruction mode that can be executed only at genesis - an equivalent of DoAnything permission but without root. May prove to be a lot of work, with a rather small outcome.

Concerns

We should be careful to design the solution so that it can be used in both public and private blockchains. It is addressed in the Solution section.

Assumptions

Assumption is made that we do not want to change much the current data model of domains, accounts, assets and permissions.

Risks

We do not want to change the data model much, as some other projects already depend on it.

Additional Information

Every other setup related work apart from root account initialization and permissions domain initialization can be done by ordinary transactions submitted by clients and therefore does not require genesis block related functionality.

Final Decision

It was decided to disable permission checks specifically for genesis block validation.