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Stoppable Paxos, a variant of the ordinary Paxos algorithm, implements a replicated stoppable state machine.<\/p>\n<p>This paper contains a complete description and proof of the &#8220;brick wall&#8221; algorithm that was sketched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reconfiguring-a-state-machine\/\">[171]<\/a>. It was rejected from the 2008 DISC conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stoppable state machine is one whose execution can be terminated by a special stopping command. Stoppable state machines can be used to implement reconfiguration in a replicated state machine; a reconfigurable state machine is implemented by a sequence of stoppable state machines, each running in a fixed configuration. 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