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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | The Part-Time Parliament |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | A value is chosen only when a majority has accepted it in some ballot, and every higher ballot must honour a value that majority might already have chosen. |
| Who may write | Leslie Lamport |
| What is settled | Ballots are totally ordered. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Paxos does not pick an open membership. |
| What this library says afterwards | A reading of the public document. Not a copy of it, and not a claim about a later network that reused the name. |
| Rights | Official external source only |