National audienceNo collision occurs during a consensus instance if all the proposed values are the same. To reduce the time required to reach a decision, some consensus protocols are betting that no collision will occur during the next consensus instance. This idea has been studied by Lamport who proposed a variant of the Paxos protocol called Fast Paxos. When no collision occurs the proposed optimization leads to a gain. Unfortunately this optimization is risky and the triggering of this optimization may lead to an additional cost when the circumstances are unfavorable. In this paper we describe briefly the Paxos-MIC protocol which allows to execute a sequence of consensus instances. After each consensus, a local triggering criterion is e...