There is no clear advantage to having the counter-node determine the leader as it seems the same failure modes can occur compared to doing leader selection locally.
The leader is used to determine who will broadcast the transaction. An alternative approach would be to determine the collective last known tip during signature collection and then use that to select the leader (or node) that will broadcast the transaction.
There is no clear advantage to having the counter-node determine the leader as it seems the same failure modes can occur compared to doing leader selection locally.
The leader is used to determine who will broadcast the transaction. An alternative approach would be to determine the collective last known tip during signature collection and then use that to select the leader (or node) that will broadcast the transaction.