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The part-time parliament

Leslie Lamport
- 01 May 1998 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 2, pp 133-169
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The Paxon parliament's protocol provides a new way of implementing the state machine approach to the design of distributed systems.
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Recent archaeological discoveries on the island of Paxos reveal that the parliament functioned despite the peripatetic propensity of its part-time legislators. The legislators maintained consistent copies of the parliamentary record, despite their frequent forays from the chamber and the forgetfulness of their messengers. The Paxon parliament's protocol provides a new way of implementing the state machine approach to the design of distributed systems.

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