Would you mind expanding a little more? If I'm understanding your point correctly -- you're saying that the sequencer failure case (whether it's modified switch

Would you mind expanding a little more? If I'm understanding your point correctly -- you're saying that the sequencer failure case (whether it's modified switches or programmable switches, or software-based) is more common as congestion increases, and that's what makes this unusable in practice? Wouldn't traditional Paxos already be dead in the water at that point? Also regarding the point about multicast storms -- I was imagining something like <100 nodes in a multicast group -- is that naive? What obvious use case am I missing? I was basically thinking of this scheme in front of a database layer