I see your point, and you’re right, that isn’t posted publicly anywhere because these were being operated under an agreement that was made prior to Genesis when there was not a community to consult.
DFINITY is the one who owns these servers. The NPs for these four DCs (AT1, TP1, SJ1, FM1) were operating them under a private agreement made prior to Genesis for 48 months, which ends Nov 30. These NPs have been completely responsible for running them, (DFINITY has not had any access and does not hold the DC contracts.) Their use of the servers ends Saturday, and we are therefore reassuming posession of the servers that we own.
Thus, these removal proposals are more in the nature of a cleanup than anything else. The servers are getting shut down by the operators and us regardless, according to the terms of our private agreement, but it will be cleaner if the subnets are removed prior.
ETA on Dec 13 so this update can be easily referenced and found in continuting proposals:
- DFINITY has regained control of the SJ1, FM1, TP1, and AT1 servers. (As explained above, we had no access until this month, as we were loaning the hardware but not operating them.)
- As of today, Dec 13, we have removed the servers in SJ1, FM1, and TP1 from those DCs to repurpose them for infrastructure. This is reflected in the dashboard showing them all as “offline.”
- The AT1 servers were sold (auction in this thread), so those are not yet removed from the DC. This is being scheduled with the buyers.