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podc-writing-style

Use when drafting or revising the body of an ACM PODC paper — building the distributed-theory skeleton (an explicit model box, the result stated as a theorem up front, a proof architecture the reader can navigate, and the 10-page-merits discipline) so the merits case lands within the first 10 pages a PODC committee is guaranteed to read.

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# PODC Writing Style

Write for a reader who will check your proof. A PODC paper is a **mathematical argument** about a
**distributed model**, and the committee decides on the **first 10 pages after the title page** (the
merits budget). The house style is therefore front-loaded: fix the model, state the result, then
prove it — with the proof organized so a reviewer can find and verify each step.

## The first-page arc

Lead with the result inside its model, in this order (see the worked example in
`resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md`):

1. **The problem inside a fixed model** — network (message-passing / shared memory), timing
   (synchronous / asynchronous / partial synchrony), fault model (crash / Byzantine /