[cap-talk] controversial article

[Mark Miller]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ben Laurie <benl at google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Mark Miller<erights at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Distributed defensive correctness over unreliable networks is, almost by
> > definition of "unreliable", impossible.
>
> I'm curious about this.
>
> The only thing we have is unreliable networks.
>
> Are you suggesting, therefore, that distributed defensive correctness
> is impossible?
>

Practically, yes. Unreliable means that there's no hard guarantee of
service. Crypto turns unreliable into fail-stop. Redundant paths can reduce
the frequency of failures. Reputation feedback, SLAs, and bounties can
incent various parties to reduce this frequency as well. How would you go
beyond this?


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   --MarkM
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