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After going through the article, I'm not seeing anything that supports or justifies the phrase "decentralized" or even "semi-decentralized". The terminology sho
by marknadal 8y ago
After going through the article, I'm not seeing anything that supports or justifies the phrase "decentralized" or even "semi-decentralized". The terminology should be "distributed".
Claiming this is semi-decentralized is confusing, and seemingly wanting to borrow from the recent success of decentralized systems (like IPFS, ours, GUN, and others) without being honest: There system is distributed, not decentralized. In the same way "Serverless" totally requires using servers.
Otherwise, very good article.
- matthelb 8y agoI'm not sure the distinction that you're making between "distributed" and "decentralized" is commonly accepted in the research community (or broader technology community). In this context, the authors appear to be using "decentralized" to contrast with the "centralized" nature of leader-based state machine replication protocols.