State and Canon Terms ​

Event ​

Event — an infrastructurally significant fact: creation, transition, conflict resolution, or another formally important step.

An event is not the same as state.

Canonical Current State ​

Canonical Current State — the current recognized configuration within the canon of the network. The full logic of the term is disclosed in the section object-state-logic.

Canonization ​

Canonization — the procedure by which the network links admissible transitions to the recognized canon.

Conflict ​

Conflict — a situation in which two or more transitions cannot simultaneously occupy the same next canonical position.

Conflict belongs to canonization, not to simple delivery ordering.

Lower Canonization Layer ​

Lower Canonization Layer — the lower layer of canonization that fixes transitions and links them into a verifiable sequence of epochs.

Epoch ​

Epoch — a bounded step of canonization after which the network publishes a new verifiable outcome.

History Compaction ​

History Compaction — the principle under which working nodes rely on compact epoch outcomes without being obliged to hold the whole past array as an equally working surface.

Published State Summary ​

Published State Summary — a compact machine-readable publication of the outcome of an epoch.

Russian auxiliary equivalent: публикуемый свод состояния.

Main distinction of the section ​

One must not collapse:

• event and state;
• transition and any change of data;
• canonical current state and the full log of the past;
• conflict and a transport collision;
• Published State Summary and a receipt.