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To support the non-incremental approach, we propose that the administrative client intending to execute a reconfig, first fetches the current config from the system, and then submits a reconfig request where he fully specifies the requested configuration, its quorum system, and includes the version of the current configuration (version(M)). If the server that gets this request already has some other proposal to reconfigure (next(version(M))!=null) the reconfiguration is aborted and the administrative clients client should decide whether to retry.

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