[kiitos]

> I'm assuming a system that tracks nodes and checks for quorum(s)

Not sure why.

> because if you let isolated servers be authoritative then your data integrity goes to hell

Many AP systems maintain data integrity without central authorities or quorums for data.

> Am I wrong to think that most distributed databases have systems like that?

No, not wrong! Just that it's one class of distributed systems, among many.

[Dylan16807]

Though if you're running AP then I sure hope you have a reconciliation system, and a good reconciliation system can handle that kind of ID conflict. (Maybe you still want to avoid it to speed that process up but that really gets into the weeds.)