[viega]

Agreed that this is not a critical problem, and the cooperative side channel can be useful in otherwise uncooperative environments.

The article does mention wanting to coordinate across multiple identical processes running on the same node in a wide variety of environments as the motivator.

So maybe it should be a feature, not a bug :)

[restlake]

two well-balanced takes making me think I should embrace the fun parts of this design and worry less about the risks! it’s a pretty cool idea and impressive it works