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 | | In all these texts, the theoretical limitation of the three-phase commit protocol (that it cannot avoid blocking in the presence of network partition) is emphasized, with no consideration given to designing a network to limit the likelihood of such a partition. |
 | | In 1981, Dale Skeen [7] published a message based protocol, known as three-phase commit by later authors, whereby multiple nodes of a network could reliably agree on a consistent final state, commit or abort, in the presence of certain types of network failures. |
 | | The three-phase commit protocol is fundamental, and has found its way into a number of texts on the subject (for example, [3,6,2]). |
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