> The current hotness is spec paxos, which gets the positive trade-offs of both cheap paxos and fast paxos, if you're able to actually implement it in your DC (

> The current hotness is spec paxos, which gets the positive trade-offs of both cheap paxos and fast paxos, if you're able to actually implement it in your DC (has networking assumptions). Sounds interesting, is "spec paxos" like Spanner in requiring special hardware? If you could share some links or references to more information about it, that would be great, thanks.