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The consensus problem has recently emerged as a major interest in systems conferences, yet the systems community tends to ignore most of the large body of theory on this subject. In this chapter, I examine why this might be so. I point out misunderstandings by the systems community of the theory. I also consider some issues in this work that remains to be addressed by the theory community.
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Aguilera, M.K. (2010). Stumbling over Consensus Research: Misunderstandings and Issues. In: Charron-Bost, B., Pedone, F., Schiper, A. (eds) Replication. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5959. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11294-2_4
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