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Notice I did not mention FLP.

Atomic Broadcast (via Paxos or RAFT) does not depend on partial synchrony assumptions to maintain its safety properties.

Your internet or intranet networks are definitely asynchronous and assuming delays are bound is a recipe for building crappy systems that will inevitably fail on you in hard to debug ways.



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