@techreport{lamport2008reconfiguring,
author = {Lamport, Leslie and Malkhi, Dahlia and Zhou, Lidong},
title = {Reconfiguring a State Machine},
year = {2008},
month = {February},
abstract = {This paper describes several methods of reconfiguring a state machine. All but one of them can be fairly easily derived from the basic state-machine reconfiguration method presented in the Paxos paper [122]. We felt that it was worthwhile publishing them because few people seemed to understand the basic method. (The basic method has a parameter α that I took to be 3 in [122] because I stupidly thought that everyone would realize that the 3 could be any positive integer.) The one new algorithm, here called the "brick wall" method, is just sketched. It is described in detail in [172].

This paper was rejected by the 2008 PODC conference. Idit Keidar invited us to submit it as a tutorial to her distributed computing column in SIGACT News.},
publisher = {Microsoft},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/reconfiguring-a-state-machine/},
number = {MSR-TR-2008-193},
}