Proposal 135541 Review | Lorimer - CO.DELTA △
VOTE: On reflection, I decided to vote NO (more context here).
TLDR: A side-effect of this proposal is that some decentralisation metrics are improved which is nice. However, the proposal claims there’s a need to remove an HSM-secured node, in order to redeploy without the legacy HSM approach. However there’s no forum post from the Node Provider to put this proposal into context. This is something which has been agreed as a requirement in the past for these sorts of proposals.
@Sat, sorry to be a pain, but is there a public announcement about this from the Node Provider that can be pointed to?
Country Discrepancies (1)
This is a very large discrepancy in terms of distance, which I’m surprised to see given than ipinfo.io uses a probe network for increased geolocation accuracy. However the node in question is not the subject of this proposal, so just something to revisit at some point I think.
| Node | Data Center | Claimed Country | According to ipinfo.io |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4kimr | Toronto 2 | Canada | United States of America (the) |
Decentralisation Stats
Subnet node distance stats (distance between any 2 nodes in the subnet) →
| Smallest Distance | Average Distance | Largest Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXISTING | 104.032 km | 6528.134 km | 15362.693 km |
| PROPOSED | 104.032 km | 7058.792 km (+8.1%) | 16458.534 km (+7.1%) |
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 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| PROPOSED | 4 | 12 (+8.3%) | 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.) →
| Continent | Country | Data Center | Owner | Node Provider | Node Operator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXISTING | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| PROPOSED | 6 (-14.29%) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
See here for acceptable limits → Motion 132136
The above subnet information is illustrated below, followed by a node reference table:
Map Description
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Red marker represents a removed node (transparent center for overlap visibility)
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Green marker represents an added node
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Blue marker represents an unchanged node
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Highlighted patches represent the country the above nodes sit within (red if the country is removed, green if added, otherwise grey)
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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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Black dotted line connects to a small black marker that shows where the IP address indicates the node is located (according to
ipinfo.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.
Node Changes
| Action | Node | Status | Continent | Country | Data Center | Owner | Node Provider | Node Operator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remove |  |
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| Remove | |
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| Add | 5jqmb | UNASSIGNED | |
Asia | India | Panvel 2 (pl2) | Yotta | Krishna Enterprises | 7rw6b |
| Add | ohtm4 | UNASSIGNED | |
North America | United States of America (the) | Jacksonville (jv1) | Tierpoint | Rivonia Holdings LLC | stqij |
Other Nodes
| Node | Status | Continent | Country | Data Center | Owner | Node Provider | Node Operator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4kimr | UP | |
North America | Canada | Toronto 2 (to2) | Cyxtera | Blockchain Development Labs | 4lp6i |
| foasq | UP | |
Europe | Switzerland | Geneva (ge1) | HighDC | Archery Blockchain SCSp | yngfj |
| nu5cn | UP | |
Europe | Germany | Frankfurt 2 (fr2) | Equinix | Virtual Hive Ltd | 3nu7r |
| kydvk | UP | |
Asia | Hong Kong | HongKong 1 (hk1) | Unicom | Pindar Technology Limited | vzsx4 |
| adplk | UP | |
Asia | Korea (the Republic of) | Seoul 1 (sl1) | Megazone Cloud | Neptune Partners | ukji3 |
| 5fpvj | UP | |
Europe | Romania | Bucharest (bu1) | M247 | Iancu Aurel | c5ssg |
| kaoz3 | UP | |
Europe | Sweden | Stockholm 1 (sh1) | Digital Realty | DFINITY Stiftung | lgp6d |
| pud2o | UP | |
Asia | Singapore | Singapore (sg1) | Telin | OneSixtyTwo Digital Capital | d4bin |
| u6e7b | UP | |
Europe | Slovenia | Ljubljana 2 (lj2) | Anonstake | Anonstake | eu5wc |
| jamsd | UP | |
Europe | Slovenia | Maribor (mb1) | Posita.si | Fractal Labs AG | 3xiew |
| mcmqr | UP | |
Africa | South Africa | Gauteng 2 (jb2) | Africa Data Centres | Karel Frank | bm2lc |
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