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# Concepts
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The intention of the circuit breaker is to have a contingency plan for a
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running network which maintains network liveness. This can be achieved through
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selectively "pausing" functionality of specific modules on a running network.
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The circuit breaker is intended to be enabled through either:
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- governance
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- for emergencies a special subset of accounts selected by the state machine
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- a transaction which proves the expected behaviour is broken
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## Pause state
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The basic pause state of any module simply disables all message routes to
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that module. Beyond that, it may be a appropriate for different modules to
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process begin-block/end-block in an altered "safe" way.
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