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takemiyamakoto committed Jan 19, 2017
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### 2.1. P2P Network

***Development status: currently all peers are validating peers***

Generally, 3*f*+1 nodes are needed to tolerate *f* Byzantine nodes in the network (albeit some consensus algorithms have higher node requirements). The number of *f* that a system should be made to tolerate should be determined by the system maintainer, based on the requirements for expected use cases.

The following node types are considered:
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* Validating peers
* Normal peer

***Development status: currently all peers are validating peers***

### 2.2. Membership service

***Development status: add/remove peer functions are currently in development. ETA: before end of February***

Membership is provided in a decentralized way, on ledger. By default 2*f*+1 signatures are needed to confirm adding or removing nodes to the network.

In future work, it is planned to add finer granularity permissions, similar to unix style permissions an membership groups.
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