[p2p-hackers] Tolerance vs resilience to fault

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Anh Dinh <T.T.Dinh at cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> Given a fault, what are the differences of a (P2P) system being tolerant 
> of that fault and being resilient to that fault.

The paper "Basic Concepts and Taxonomy of Dependable and Secure
Computing" [0] (which is widely referred to in the "dependable
computing" community) considers "resilience" and "fault tolerance" as
synonyms.

Thanks,
Ludo'.

[0] http://www.cs.umass.edu/~ransford/srg/papers/avizienis--dependable-secure.pdf