Method for validating ownership of a resource within a network, coordinating agent and validation agent

A coordinating agent, comprising:

• a first communication interface for a validation service, the first communication interface being configured to receive information on a resource within a network and a property of the resource;
• a second communication interface for validation agents, the second communication interface being configured to transmit an address indicator for the resource to a group of available validation agents and to receive network routes between each of the available validation agents and each entity of a group of one or more entities associated to the resource;
• and
• selection circuitry configured to select a group of at least two validation agents from the group of available validation agents based on the received network routes such that network routes between each validation agent of the group of at least two validation agents and each entity of the group of one or more entities associated to the resource do not intersect.

A method for validating ownership of a resource within a network, comprising:

• selecting a group of at least two validation agents such that network routes between each validation agent of the group of at least two validation agents and each entity of a group of one or more entities associated with the resource do not intersect;
• transmitting a property of the resource to be queried to the group of at least two validation agents;
• receiving queried properties from the group of at least two validation agents;
• and
• validating the ownership of the resource based on the queried properties.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer program code stored, when executed by a programmable processor, perform a method to validate ownership of a resource within a network, the method comprising:

• selecting a group of at least two validation agents such that network routes between each validation agent of the group of at least two validation agents and each entity of a group of one or more entities associated to the resource do not intersect;
• transmitting a property of the resource to be validated and an address indicator for the resource from a coordinating agent to the group of at least two validation agents;
• querying the property of the resource from the group of one or more entities using the group of at least two validation agents to determine queried properties;
• and
• evaluating the queried properties to validate ownership of the resource.