Consensus, async, Ae : What does it all mean and where does it matter?

[jlpell]

@dirvine

It is not documented anywhere I can find and I believe this is lost on many Engineers, but it happens to be accurate.

I tried to make it pretty at one point…

Why this many Elders? I don't grok the Seven

Thanks for the reminder on the handshake formula. I made a few graphics to help describe the previous posts.Here’s what the objective space looks like for initial group sizes of 4 to 30 elders. The colors indicate the group size. [p1] This is what happens to the feasible options when we demand <= 25% malicious node handling, and <=25% node loss /failure handling. Infeasible candidates are gray. [p2] A 2D slice of the data showing a pareto (non-dominated) front in the upper left corner for m…