Proposal 136319 – Louise | Aviate Labs Vote: ADOPT Review:
This proposal registers a new Node Operator record indicating that the Node Provider, DFINITY Stiftung, will be operating 28 nodes in the SE1 data center.
It’s important to note that DFINITY is already running 42 rewarded nodes. These additional 28 nodes will not receive rewards and are being deployed to increase spare capacity and improve the ability to perform faster subnet recovery when needed.
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Reason:
In line with Increasing DFINITY Node Count and NNS Topology Exception, link provided in the summary, NP DFINITY Stiftung in order to deploy another 28 nodes, is adding NO xph6u in the SE1 DC in Washington currently with 0 nodes, to be used for node_allowance:28 without any rewards set, as previously agreed upon. This step was expected according to current guidelines and follows proposal 136084.
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The Node Provider DFINITY Stiftung is creating the Node Operator xph6u to hold 28 nodes in the se1 DC.
Relevant steps taken towards this proposal were:
A Forum post by the NP (DFINITY) expressing intent for this proposal and explaining why
The Node Operator ID proposed is new
According with the post linked above the nodes that will be operated by this Node Operator will not count as rewardable nodes, so this NO field’s will remain empty.
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Looking through the details now, I see from the dashboard that DFINITY Stiftung currently has 43 nodes and proposal 136319 would add allowance for 28 more. Wouldn’t this exceed the agreed limit of 70 nodes?
DFINITY has 28 nodes in Stockholm and 14 in Zürich 2 in addition to the new 28 nodes in Seattle 1. However the operator records are a huge mess in zh2, and is likely causing some incorrect counts. That zh2 DC should be cleaned up ASAP but we couldn’t redeploy all these nodes since we were out of unused nodes.
Given the state of affairs at the moment with NPs, I would personally support DFINITY temporarily having a larger number of nodes than would typically be considered permissible.
I think the much bigger concern is the number of existing NPs who indicate that they’re unwilling to comply with reasonable transparency demands. It’s a bad mess that the network has voted itself into.
The more nodes DFINITY has, the less leverage those other NPs have over the network (one’s who demand unreasonable obfuscation and opacity).
Actually me tagging you was about the Dashboard data, I always fought you giving the benefit of doubt to Dfinity that if it is public on the dashboard it must be true, guess what it all went out of the window and I must admit you were right. Let’s see what will be the node id that is the one .
BTW hat to edit that, not sure if tagging you or at this point any new reply is flagged and must go to staff but it was hidden.
Also I/we/you (already voted yes) so it wasn’t about not agreeing.
This proposal adds a new node operator ID for node provider DFINITY Stiftung with a node_allowance of 28. The IC dashboard shows this NP as currently having 43 nodes, but as pointed here the correct count should be 42. I agree that this does need some cleaning up but this would result in a total capacity of 70 nodes, in keeping with the approved limit as outlined earlier in this thread.
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