Adjusting Target Topology for Caffeine Scaling: 60 application subnets and a US subnet

Proposal 137232 Review | Lorimer :infinity: :dog_face: - CO.DELTA △

VOTE: YES

TLDR: Creates a new subnet that conforms to the IC Target Topology and associated business rules (such as 1 DFINITY-owned node for ease of subnet recovery).

I’ve also reviewed the initialisation config which I’ll post separately for all of the proposed subnets, at which point a link to will be provided → here

Decentralisation Stats

Subnet node distance stats (distance between any 2 nodes in the subnet) →

Smallest Distance Average Distance Largest Distance
PROPOSED 224.22 km 7762.977 km 16457.749 km

Subnet characteristic counts →

Continents Countries Data Centers Owners Node Providers Node Operator
PROPOSED 4 11 13 13 13 13

Largest number of nodes with the same characteristic (e.g. continent, country, data center, etc.) →

Continent Country Data Center Owner Node Provider Node Operator
PROPOSED 6 2 1 1 1 1

See here for acceptable limits → Motion 137147

The above subnet information is illustrated below, followed by a node reference table:

Map Description
  • Green marker represents an added node
  • Highlighted patches represent the country the above nodes sit within (red if the country is removed, green if added, otherwise grey)

Node Changes
Action Node Status Continent Country Data Center Owner Node Provider Node Operator
Add 3s6fj UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Europe Belgium Brussels (br1) Digital Realty Allusion mjeqs
Add g2yrq UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Europe Switzerland Geneva (ge1) HighDC Extragone SA yngfj
Add yzwxm UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Europe Switzerland Zurich 6 (zh6) Green.ch Sygnum Bank ciprs
Add cp7d4 UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia Georgia Tbilisi 1 (tb1) Cloud9 George Bassadone yhfy4
Add xbeha UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Europe Isle of Man Douglas 2 (im2) Continent8 Zarety LLC ylbc3
Add f4xs2 UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia India Greater Noida 1 (gn1) Yotta ACCUSET SOLUTIONS slaxf
Add cgm5b UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia Japan Tokyo 3 (ty3) Equinix Starbase 7ldwr
Add xatzx UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia Korea (the Republic of) Seoul 1 (sl1) Megazone Cloud Neptune Partners ukji3
Add qpt6h UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia Sri Lanka Colombo 1 (cm1) OrionStellar Geodd Pvt Ltd ywjtr
Add 364us UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia Singapore Singapore 3 (sg3) Racks Central Protocol16 vicvb
Add 6bbgn UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: North America United States of America (the) Las Vegas (lv1) Flexential 87m Neuron, LLC gsps3
Add 4jv6f UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: North America United States of America (the) Washington 1 (se1) Evocative DFINITY Stiftung xph6u
Add 7fiyj UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Africa South Africa Cape Town 2 (ct2) Teraco Kontrapunt (Pty) Ltd x7fjr


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