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This is missing what to me is the most important part of the algorithm: a quorum of acceptors must propagate writes to the learners. With just what's shown here, you're not tolerant to network partitions that cause a subset of the "accept" messages to be lost.That process can of course be optimized in a number of ways that drastically cut down on the network overhead as compared to the naive MxN w