We could generalize having a tree of known authorities upstream with what a CRDT does, resulting in both being two special cases of a more general consistent ev

We could generalize having a tree of known authorities upstream with what a CRDT does, resulting in both being two special cases of a more general consistent event processing model. CRDT makes the order of events commutative, hence the "authority" becomes a property of the math itself, rather than a physical service.