[rescrv]

If you mean, "The Part-time Parliament," it's indeed a little complex.

It's worth reading his description of the paper to understand why: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#lamport-paxo...

In short, not everyone has the same sense of humor.

[cube2222]

I now it was for fun, but it did make the algorithm substantially more complex to understand.

Paxos made simple is much easier in comparison.