Overview#

Consensus is the consent of a Community of Interest.

Consensus implies that a decision or "state" has been achieved.

Consensus in a Distributed Data Store has completed Replication when an agreed upon state or Consensus has been obtained.

Consensus implies the Consent or Authorization of an entity within a context.

Consensus, like consent does NOT imply full agreement but rather a that 'No Objection'.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• American National Standards Institute
• Bitcoin Cash
• Canonical truth
• Chubby Lock Service
• Consistency
• Create The Vision
• Decentralized system
• Distributed Consensus
• Distributed Ledger Technology
• Fair Information Practices
• Groupthink
• HotStuff
• Hyperledger
• IMA Policies
• Identity Overlay Network
• Indy Steward
• Libra Blockchain
• LibraBFT
• Model
• Nakamoto consensus
• Open Standard
• Our Approach
• Religion
• Ripple Consensus Protocol Algorithm
• Sovrin Foundation
• Sovrin Steward
• Stellar Consensus Protocol
• Stellar Ledger
• Stellar Network
• Swirlds hashgraph consensus algorithm
• Technical Positions Statements