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Though it might not be explicitly stated in the paper, EPaxos has the same liveness guarantee as all other consensus protocols: commands will eventually commit if a long enough period of synchrony occurs. As the author of this post notes, this is a fundamental limitation of the specification of the consensus problem - no protocol can get around the limitation while solving consensus by definition.


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