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

Proposal 137338 Review | Lorimer :infinity: :dog_face: - CO.DELTA △

VOTE: NO

TLDR: The proposed subnet topology contains 2 nodes from the rbn2y+g7dkt+acqus cluster (more than 1 breaks the ‘independent party’ imperative that each subnet needs to adhere to). The nodes involved are:

Further reasoning, commentary and justification for my vote can be found here.

Decentralisation Stats

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

Smallest Distance Average Distance Largest Distance
PROPOSED 14.244 km 8116.092 km 18504.433 km

Subnet characteristic counts →

Continents Countries Data Centers Owners Node Providers Node Operator
PROPOSED 3 9 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 7 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 lhviu UP :bar_chart: Europe Belgium Antwerp (an1) Datacenter United NODAO k4aor
Add akpwl UP :bar_chart: Europe Belgium Brussels (br1) Digital Realty Allusion mjeqs
Add nbela UP :bar_chart: North America Costa Rica San José 1 (cr1) Navegalo GeoNodes LLC eqv2i
Add 5ei6o UP :bar_chart: Asia Hong Kong HongKong 3 (hk3) hkcolo Power Meta Corporation 4lbqo
Add amy5r UP :bar_chart: Asia Hong Kong HongKong 4 (hk4) hkntt Origin Game aaxec
Add ntq7u UP :bar_chart: Europe Isle of Man Douglas 1 (im1) Manx Telecom Blue Ant LLC 4isre
Add covnt UP :bar_chart: Asia India Panvel 2 (pl2) Yotta Krishna Enterprises 7rw6b
Add 2ric4 UP :bar_chart: Asia Japan Tokyo 3 (ty3) Equinix Starbase 7ldwr
Add wjwzb UP :bar_chart: Asia Korea (the Republic of) Seoul 2 (kr2) Gasan Web3game 5dwhe
Add 6plly UP :bar_chart: Asia Singapore Singapore 2 (sg2) Telin OneSixtyTwo Digital Capital qxonx
Add 45wdz UP :bar_chart: Asia Singapore Singapore 3 (sg3) Racks Central Protocol16 vicvb
Add rbq63 UP :bar_chart: North America United States of America (the) Atlanta 2 (at2) Datasite Giant Leaf, LLC spsu4
Add tzemr UP :bar_chart: North America United States of America (the) Washington 1 (se1) Evocative DFINITY Stiftung xph6u


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