Consensus: The Big Misunderstanding

  • Authors:
  • Rachid Guerraoui;Andre Schiper

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FTDCS '97 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The paper aims at clarifying some misunderstandings about the consensus problem. These misunderstandings prevent consensus from being considered as it should be, i.e., a fundamental paradigm in the context of fault-tolerant distributed systems, not only from a theoretical point of view, but also from a practical point of view. Six frequent misunderstandings are discussed.