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Flexible Paxos: Quorum Intersection Revisited

Only quorums from different phases have to intersect. A phase-1 quorum and a phase-2 quorum must overlap. Two phase-2 quorums need not.

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Authors: Heidi Howard, Dahlia Malkhi and Alexander Spiegelman
Date: 2016
Publisher: Heidi Howard, Dahlia Malkhi and Alexander Spiegelman
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0154
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Only quorums from different phases have to intersect. A phase-1 quorum and a phase-2 quorum must overlap. Two phase-2 quorums need not.

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Howard, H., Malkhi, D., & Spiegelman, A. (2016). Flexible Paxos: Quorum Intersection Revisited. Heidi Howard, Dahlia Malkhi and Alexander Spiegelman. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06696

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@techreport{flexiblepaxos2016,
  title = {Flexible Paxos: Quorum Intersection Revisited},
  author = {Heidi Howard, Dahlia Malkhi and Alexander Spiegelman},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Heidi Howard, Dahlia Malkhi and Alexander Spiegelman},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06696},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/flexible-paxos}
}

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