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

[alexu]

@Lorimer

Out of interest, do you know why the proposed US subnet is not being introduced as a rented subnet?

The Swiss subnet team had to front a lot of ICP, and are putting in significant effort to ensure conformance to the IC Target Topology (without unduly bending it).

Do we know why this wasn’t deemend appropriate for the US subnet? What will this mean for the future of country subnets (what determines if they need renting)?

Swiss Subnet is an initiative of Swiss Subnet AG, which decided to rent this to use this subnet exclusively for its own purposes. US subnet isn’t like this. It will be a publicly available subnet, just like other application subnets, including European one.