The Consensus page is just marketing, only code speaks the truth.
Ripple is all marketing at this point.
No one knows if the consensus scheme will work...
When scaled up... or under attack... or decentralized.
The current Ripple network is just a Dev Playground.
There are reasons why they are WAAAAAY behind schedule and not open sourced...
My guess is that there are fundamental problems with the design...
This is a group that can't even debug a Client after 2 years.