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Aleksey and I are back to reading papers live. This paper, Jetpack(OSDI '26), attempts building a universal 1-RTT fast-path framework that bolts onto existing leader-based consensus protocols with minimal modification.Why would we want this? Classic consensus protocols like Raft, Paxos, or Zab require two round-trip times (2 RTT) to commit a command: one RTT from client to leader, and another to replicate across followers. The extra RTT matters a lot for WAN deployments, so fast-path protocols (such as Fast Paxos, EPaxos, or SwiftPaxos) reduce this to 1 RTT by bypassing leader serialization, but unfortunately they tightly couple the fast path...