Distributed Systems, Distributed Algorithms, Algorithms, Paxos, Consensus.
not between two people, but is a bit like what happens among the Aiel folk in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series — one or more Aiel women can be first-sisters and either the man has to marry them all, or none at all. Among the Aiel, the marriage vows would perhaps work as follows: “Do you …?” “I