Lamport intended MultiPaxos to be called Paxos, and it was described in his original Part Time Parliament paper which was written in 89 and published in 98. Th

Lamport intended MultiPaxos to be called Paxos, and it was described in his original Part Time Parliament paper which was written in 89 and published in 98. These days I think Paxos refers both to what Lamport thought of as single decree Paxos, or Paxos leader election, and also the lineage of protocols that derive from it, as well as sometimes specifically MultiPaxos. But it’s OK, words can have multiple meanings. For what it’s worth even EPaxos is long in the tooth now. There have been several advancements in the intervening years, the latest being Accord[1], a protocol the Cassandra community has developed for cross shard distributed transactions. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/188744725/Accord.pdf https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/188... (Full disclosure: I’m one of the authors)