Yep, that was my understanding as well. It doesn't seem to be for consensus. Although, for Frontend servers which just do auth, routing, etc - why is P2P gossi

Yep, that was my understanding as well. It doesn't seem to be for consensus. Although, for Frontend servers which just do auth, routing, etc - why is P2P gossip necessary for building shard map? Possibly because retrieval of configuration information directly from the vending service may be a bottleneck - but then why not gossip with a subset of peers than every peer and the vending service which is a source of truth.