Incident Report: It appears that there were 10 proposals total that did not get a vote from the Synapse neuron in November. We have been following DFINITY on the Node Admin and Participant Management proposal topics and DFINITY has been voting on the majority of these proposal topics. However, all 10 of these proposals that were rejected due to insufficient voting had a voting period that ended on a Sunday. Hence, it appears that the reliability of voting fell off on the weekend.
These proposals are all part of a larger effort to improve node topology and diversification. These seems to be the most relevant forum posts on this effort node diversification part 1, node diversification part 2, new node provider proposals, node provider renumeration) and here is a motion proposal 125367. At this time there is a major uptick in the number of Node Admin and Participant Management proposals that are the result of this node diversification effort, so this is a somewhat heavy load of proposals at this time. I don’t know how much longer it will last, but seems like it could be months.
I have advised the Synapse voting members that we need to consider voting manually on these proposals if they are still open by the weekend. DFINITY typically waits until day 4 to vote on these proposals. Hence, it doesn’t leave much time for Synapse to respond if they don’t vote since we have 13 voting members. Instead of waiting until day 4, we will likely vote on day 2 if that falls on a Friday.
If there is anyone in the ICP ecosystem who is actively paying attention to the node diversification effort who can offer reliable and educated voting on these Node Admin and Participant Management proposal topics, then please let me or any of the Synapse voting members know. You can find us on our website at synapse.vote. I think we would be interested in setting our neuron to follow them. Not only would that enable us to contribute to further decentralization of ICP, it would also give us slightly more control to make sure we don’t miss votes moving forward. I am absolutely opposed to blindly voting yes or no on all proposals, so that will not be our long term solution. However, it is appropriate for us to seek qualified Followees for each type or proposal topic. Perhaps this event is a good opportunity to expand our voting members with a new skill set. Please advise if you know anyone who can specialize in this area.