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diff --git a/docs/access.md b/docs/access.md index 3877dff..6422b51 100644 --- a/docs/access.md +++ b/docs/access.md @@ -357,9 +357,12 @@ ID: a forged root, or a genesis started again). A node joining with an empty document takes as its root only the one it was given (`--genesis-root`), or else the one its peers name, and none while they name different ones; and none before each of its seeds named one, or ten seconds passed since the -first did. So without `--genesis-root`, the root is the one the seeds that answer within -that wait agree on: one peer hands a joiner another root only if it is all the joiner -hears by then; with `--genesis-root`, never. +first did. Its seeds are the nodes proven at the seeds' addresses: another peer naming +a root (one of a member's own identities, say) disputes it, but neither ends the wait +nor starts it. So without `--genesis-root`, the root is the one the seeds that answer +within that wait agree on, none while any peer names another: one seed hands a joiner +another root only if it is all the joiner hears of its seeds by then; with +`--genesis-root`, never. What it doesn't do yet: |