---
id: 1804
title: "Motivating global stabilization"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/11/11/motivating-global-stabilization/"
published_at: "2021-11-11T15:39:56Z"
tags: ["research", "distributed-systems", "consensus", "flp-impossibility", "protocols", "theory"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1804"
lang: en
---

# Motivating global stabilization

## Summary

The FLP result showed consensus is impossible under fair assumptions. This post explains how the DLS paper's global stabilization time assumption sidesteps it and what that means for protocol design.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2021-11-11T15:39:56Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2021/11/11/motivating-global-stabilization/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1804