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The OP's research may lead him (or others) to develop an alternative solution to the problem. If you are old enough, you might recall a time when this methodology was applied to develop free communication tools, operating systems and peer-to-peer file sharing protocols.

Even if it is too early for the protocol to be considered stable enough for reverse engineering, I think it's important that open source developers start considering decentralized sync a challenge worth tackling. Kudos, mreithub.