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A protocol that runs on infrastructure one company controls is a platform with better vocabulary. Nodes are the answer to that — independently operated instances that participate in the network — and they are designed rather than running, which this page says rather than implies.
Decentralization claimed without operating nodes is the exact thing this protocol argues against. Naming the gap is more useful than a diagram implying a network that has one participant.
Holding a copy of the records it participates in, validating what it accepts, and remaining independently operable if the primary instance is unavailable. Anything less is a mirror rather than a node.
It is agreeing what a node must validate and what happens when two disagree. Those rules have to be settled before anybody runs one, because changing them afterwards means changing every participant at once.
An append-only event log with hash-linked entries, which is the substrate a node would replicate. The replication, validation and disagreement rules do not exist yet.