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Safety-Preserving Adaptive Quorum Selection in Federated Consensus Networks

Profile envelopes, reserve-collapse, and certified reconfiguration

Research reportMF-PRISM-DLT-2026-01 / v1.1

Certify the envelope of every independently selectable local quorum profile before allowing adaptation. The paper studies reserve collapse and version transitions, with finite structural checks rather than a complete consensus implementation.

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Current public editionv1.1 · 2026-09-12
Identifier
MF-PRISM-DLT-2026-01
Series
Distributed Systems
Edition
Version 1.1
Length
17 pages
Reserved DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22728295 (record reserved)
01
The question

What is this paper trying to establish?

Can validators adapt local quorum choices without destroying global quorum intersection?

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The contribution

The central idea.

Certify the envelope of every independently selectable local quorum profile before allowing adaptation. The paper studies reserve collapse and version transitions, with finite structural checks rather than a complete consensus implementation.

Current status

Quorum-envelope theory with exact finite verification and illustrative synthetic evaluation. The results do not constitute a complete consensus proof or production network benchmark.

This report develops a conditional method and evaluates it within the stated evidence. It does not establish production performance, operational safety, or calibrated real-world predictive skill beyond that evidence.

03
Why it matters

What changes if the method holds?

Adaptive settings are only safe if every allowed combination remains structurally compatible. Certifying the whole choice envelope prevents local optimization from creating a global safety failure.

04
Independent review

Where scrutiny should concentrate.

The paper identifies the following points as the highest-value targets for independent review.

  1. 01
    Exact union of profile quorums and independent choice assumptions.
  2. 02
    Reserve-collapse law and mixed-version transitions.
  3. 03
    Quorum intersection versus full protocol correctness and liveness.
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Review status
Open for independent review
Published
2026-09-12
DOI status
Reserved · 10.5281/zenodo.22728295
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MF-PRISM-DLT-2026-01
Metriq PRISM Laboratory, Safety-Preserving Adaptive Quorum Selection in Federated Consensus Networks, Metriq PRISM Laboratory Research Paper MF-PRISM-DLT-2026-01, Version 1.1, 2026. Corresponding contributor: Daniel H. Jeffery, ORCID 0009-0001-1200-6042. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22728295.