作者:Butler W.Lampson 1996
原文:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/58-consensus/Acrobat.pdf
译者:phylips@bmy 2012-11-18
译文:http://duanple.blog.163.com/blog/static/709717672012102185013508/
[序:关于这篇文章,其实之前在“A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit”中有过一些介绍,它最重要的意义在于使得Paxos算法为理论研究领域的科学家们所重视,并最终使得Leslie Lamport那篇“The Part-Time Parliament”从故纸堆里重见天日。