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Fail-stop Failures in Asynchronous Systems

We start this section with an impossibility result, and spend the rest of it trying to modify either the system or our assumptions so as to make this kind of consensus possible.





Lawrence Kesteloot
Fri Jan 20 16:38:32 EST 1995