Dec 4: This paper dives into the notion of time in the distributed system and explores what advantages we can get from relaxing commonly demanded consistency levels, allowing to achieve PRAM, and even causal consistency without sacrifice to availability (i.e. unidirectional streaming if just one node is reachable, making local reads consistent). This can be useful for federating services and stores: "Continuous Integration of Data Histories into Consistent Namespaces"