This topic is intended to capture Subnet Management activities over time for the cv73p subnet, providing a place to ask questions and make observations about the management of this subnet.
At the time of creating this topic the current subnet configuration is as follows:
DFINITY will submit an NNS proposal today to reduce the notarization delay on the subnet, cv73p, similar to what has happened on other subnets in recent weeks (you can find all details in this forum thread).
Voted to adopt proposal 134179, as the reasoning is sound and the description matches the payload. This proposal replaces 2 healthy nodes, both of which appear as “Active” on the IC dashboard. The proposed change improves decentralisation with respect to country and brings the target topology parameters to within the requirements.
TLDR: I’m planning to adopt. This proposal brings this subnet inline with the IC Target Topology, by reducing the max number of nodes per country from 3 to 2.
This does however increase the max number of nodes per continent from 6 to 8. Nevertheless, countries are considered to be more important than continents (and are a formal part of the IC Target Topology, whereas continents are not).
Motivation:
replacing node m2yt5-mn7lw-76bqj-ijlgn-55n3k-xbjzl-43olv-6xi4p-2ecp4-eipxu-xae to optimize network topology
replacing node jsaui-j3qrn-3i3m3-xdn2s-bad3f-5kwlu-36gej-i75ik-5fjrg-z3jge-bqe to optimize network topology
2 American nodes replaced with 2 European nodes.
Decentralisation Stats
Subnet node distance stats (distance between any 2 nodes in the subnet) →
Smallest Distance
Average Distance
Largest Distance
EXISTING
0 km
6851.289 km
15377.131 km
PROPOSED
0 km
6014.926 km (-12.2%)
15377.131 km
This proposal slightly reduces decentralisation, considered purely in terms of geographic distance (and therefore there’s a slight theoretical reduction in localised disaster resilience).
Subnet characteristic counts →
Continents
Countries
Data Centers
Owners
Node Providers
Node Operator
EXISTING
3
10
13
13
13
13
PROPOSED
3
11 (+9.1%)
13
13
13
13
This proposal slightly improves decentralisation in terms of jurisdiction diversity.
Largest number of nodes with the same characteristic (e.g. continent, country, data center, etc.) →
The above subnet information is illustrated below, followed by a node reference table:
Map Description
Red marker represents a removed node (transparent center for overlap visibility)
Green marker represents an added node
Blue marker represents an unchanged node
Highlighted patches represent the country the above nodes sit within (red if the country is removed, green if added, otherwise grey)
Light grey markers with yellow borders are examples of unassigned nodes that would be viable candidates for joining the subnet according to formal decentralisation coefficients (so this proposal can be viewed in the context of alternative solutions that are not being used)
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The proposal replaces 2 healthy Active status nodes form Fremont and Portland, both from US this way reducing Country from 4 to 2, in order to optimize network topology.
Voted to adopt proposal 134179. The proposal replaces two nodes from subnet cv73p:
Removed Nodes: m2yt5, jsaui.
Added Nodes: 2mmpk and ax6zb.
The proposal was verified using the DRE tool to verify the metrics stated. All nodes replaced are healthy but this replacements improve the network topology on the country metric reducing the number of nodes in the US from 4 to 2.
This proposal replaces node njsmq which appears in the dashboard as “Status: Active” for the stated reason “offboarding the second rack of nodes in the mb1 DC after 48 months”. As shown in the proposal, decentralisation parameters are improved with respect to country and remain within the requirements of the target topology.
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TLDR: Decentralisation stats are slightly improved (see Decentralisation Stats below) and there is a clear public declaration for the cordoned node which is referred to in the proposal summary. 1 cordoned node in Europe replaced with an unassigned node in Asia.
Subnet node distance stats (distance between any 2 nodes in the subnet) →
Smallest Distance
Average Distance
Largest Distance
EXISTING
104.032 km
6044.448 km
16654.257 km
PROPOSED
224.918 km (+116.2%)
6586.338 km (+9%)
16654.257 km
This proposal slightly increases decentralisation, considered purely in terms of geographic distance (and therefore there’s a slight theoretical increase in localised disaster resilience).
Subnet characteristic counts →
Continents
Countries
Data Centers
Owners
Node Providers
Node Operator
EXISTING
3
10
13
13
13
13
PROPOSED
3
11 (+9.1%)
13
13
13
13
This proposal slightly improves decentralisation in terms of jurisdiction diversity.
Largest number of nodes with the same characteristic (e.g. continent, country, data center, etc.) →
The above subnet information is illustrated below, followed by a node reference table:
Map Description
Red marker represents a removed node (transparent center for overlap visibility)
Green marker represents an added node
Blue marker represents an unchanged node
Highlighted patches represent the country the above nodes sit within (red if the country is removed, green if added, otherwise grey)
Light grey markers with yellow borders are examples of unassigned nodes that would be viable candidates for joining the subnet according to formal decentralisation coefficients (so this proposal can be viewed in the context of alternative solutions that are not being used)
Black dotted line connects to a small black marker that shows where the IP address indicates the node is located (according to api.ip2location.io). This is only displayed if it conflicts with where IC records indicate the node is located. See Country Discrepancies section above for more info.
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Vote: Adopted Reason:
The proposal replaces cordoned healthy Active status node njsmq in the MB1 DC from Slovenia, with unassigned healthy Awaiting status node qtcl6 from Korea, with slight improvement to the decentralization of the subnet.
Motivation is offboarding the second rack of nodes in the mb1 DC after 48 months, in line with the forum post.
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Replaces cordoned node njsmq with node qtcl6 on subnet cv73p.
The reason for this proposal is to offboard the MB1 DC consistent with forum posts made on the forum thread used for posts regarding the renovation/sell of Gen-1 node machines by NPs.
Both the NP and DC stated in the forum post match the ones from the node being removed in the proposal.
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