Talk:Self-stabilization
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To researchers in fault tolerance in distributed systems, self-stabilization is a very very important topic that is, if anything, inadequately covered. This article could and should be expanded, not shortened. robert.p.schaefer@baesystems.com
- Absolutely, this is an important article. The problem is not the length of the article as such, but failing to create a proper lede section, so I changed the annotation from too-long to intro-rewrite. I think the opening para needs to focus on the history and significance (notability) of the field without wading too heavily into the definitional stuff. The Dijkstra paper won the 2003 PODC award. See http://www.podc.org/dijkstra/. Probably that should be stated, along with the motivation to pose and solve the problem, as informally as possible for a non-technical audience. The first major section could be definition or something like that where the technicalities are properly introduced. MaxEnt (talk) 23:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Should include...
Since the example of token rings is introduced, a description of a self-stabilizing algorithm for token rings would be appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.172.164.101 (talk) 21:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
