After going through the article, I'm not seeing anything that supports or justifies the phrase "decentralized" or even "semi-decentralized". The terminology should be "distributed".<p>Claiming this is semi-decentralized is confusing, and seemingly wanting to borrow from the recent success of decentralized systems (like IPFS, ours, GUN, and others) without being honest: There system is distributed, not decentralized. In the same way "Serverless" totally requires using servers.<p>Otherwise, very good article.
anyone familiar with the algorithm can help answer a few question?<p>1- Why C-instance can come from any node without a
paxos phase 1a Prepare message, is it because each node (R0 to R4) have its own distinct replication log for C-instance?<p>2-When sequencer receive a C-Accept why is it safe to assume this value was successfully accepted by other replica without receiving a paxos phase3 Commit?<p>3-If replicating large value, are the value only sent in C-instance message and not in O-instance messages?