Paxos (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Message flow: Basic Paxos
(first round is successful)
Client   Proposer      Acceptor     Learner
|         |          |  |  |       |  |
X-------->|          |  |  |       |  |  Request
|         X--------->|->|->|       |  |  Prepare(1)
|         |<---------X--X--X       |  |  Promise(1,{null,null,null})
|         X--------->|->|->|       |  |  Accept!(1,V)
|         |<---------X--X--X------>|->|  Accepted(1,V)
|<---------------------------------X--X  Response"
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