[lovelearning]

A cited paper's title is "There is more consensus in Egalitarian parliaments." Are terms like "democracy" and "parliament" common terms in distributed computing theory? Or are these intentionally clickbaity/humorous paper titles?

[dgacmu]

The original Paxos paper was termed "The Part-Time Parliament", and was explained -- I'm serious here -- not as a distributed systems protocol, but as a discussion about how electors on a Greek island could vote despite wandering in and out of the room. (Lamport). It set the stage for a series of papers using that theme. We continued on that theme when picking the title for the EPaxos paper, and these folks built on that. So yeah, it's a bit of a thing specifically in the paxos literature.

And wait until I tell you about the Byzantine Generals Problem. :-)

[tremon]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf , for those who lack patience.

[lovelearning]

Thank you for explaining!