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FAB-16573 Removed "kind of a" node, and more
Signed-off-by: Paritosh Ranjan <paranjan@in.ibm.com> Change-Id: If6f6cc547d774d65b7d8d485025f66bb83092a7d
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docs/source/orderer/ordering_service.md

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different participants in the network have a different view of the accepted
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Hyperledger Fabric works differently. It features a kind of a node called an
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Hyperledger Fabric works differently. It features a node called an
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**orderer** (it's also known as an "ordering node") that does this transaction
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ordering, which along with other nodes forms an **ordering service**. Because
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Fabric's design relies on **deterministic** consensus algorithms, any block a
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peer validates as generated by the ordering service is guaranteed to be final
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and correct. Ledgers cannot fork the way they do in many other distributed
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blockchains.
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ordering, which along with other orderer nodes forms an **ordering service**.
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Because Fabric's design relies on **deterministic** consensus algorithms, any block
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validated by the peer is guaranteed to be final and correct. Ledgers cannot fork
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the way they do in many other distributed and permissionless blockchain networks.
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In addition to promoting finality, separating the endorsement of chaincode
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execution (which happens at the peers) from ordering gives Fabric advantages

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