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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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.