This was already known to be true by Heidi Howard’s research that yielded Flexible Paxos[0], Relaxed Paxos[1], and her more general thesis on Distributed consensus[2] as a whole
0 - https://fpaxos.github.io/
1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517209.3524040
2 - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-935.pdf
Research on quorum systems (such as the finite projective planes described in the article) dates back to the 80s.
Research on quorum systems (such as the finite projective planes described in the article) dates back to the 80s.