Subnet Management - qxesv (Application)

Proposal 134536

TLDR: I’ll adopt. A DOWN node replaced with an UP node. This results in more nodes within the same continent, but that’s not a part of the formal IC Target Topology.

Decentralisation Stats

Subnet node distance stats (distance between any 2 nodes in the subnet) →

Smallest Distance Average Distance Largest Distance
EXISTING 477.324 km 7270.059 km 18505.029 km
PROPOSED 493.808 km (+3.5%) 7703.353 km (+6%) 18505.029 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). :+1:

Subnet characteristic counts →

Continents Countries Data Centers Owners Node Providers Node Operator
EXISTING 3 13 13 13 13 13
PROPOSED 3 13 13 13 13 13

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 5 1 1 1 1 1
PROPOSED 6 (+20%) 1 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
  • 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)

Node Changes
Action Node Status Continent Country Data Center Owner Node Provider Node Operator
Remove sbiuh DOWN :bar_chart: Europe Slovenia Ljubljana (lj1) Posita.si Fractal Labs AG gl27f
Add lyhuu UNASSIGNED :bar_chart: Asia China HongKong 1 (hk1) Unicom Pindar Technology Limited vzsx4
Other Nodes
Node Status Continent Country Data Center Owner Node Provider Node Operator
ctwsk UP :bar_chart: Europe Belgium Brussels (br1) Digital Realty Allusion mjeqs
5v6bx UP :bar_chart: Americas Canada Toronto (to1) Cyxtera Blockchain Development Labs 6oxlv
uk6n5 UP :bar_chart: Europe Switzerland Zurich 2 (zh2) Everyware DFINITY Stiftung vqe65
fvy7i UP :bar_chart: Americas Costa Rica San José 1 (cr1) Navegalo GeoNodes LLC eqv2i
sspbf UP :bar_chart: Asia Georgia Tbilisi 1 (tb1) Cloud9 George Bassadone yhfy4
cxuqe UP :bar_chart: Asia India New Delhi 1 (nd1) Marvelous Web3 DC Marvelous Web3 ri4lg
kzlfn UP :bar_chart: Asia Japan Tokyo 2 (ty2) Equinix Starbase dpt4y
pmlsj UP :bar_chart: Asia Korea (the Republic of) Seoul 1 (sl1) Megazone Cloud Neptune Partners ukji3
j7mu5 UP :bar_chart: Europe Portugal Lisbon 1 (li1) Dotsi Ivanov Oleksandr bnfpu
ys5ct UP :bar_chart: Europe Romania Bucharest (bu1) M247 Iancu Aurel c5ssg
ii5t4 UP :bar_chart: Asia Singapore Singapore 2 (sg2) Telin OneSixtyTwo Digital Capital qffmn
w5nh3 UP :bar_chart: Americas United States of America (the) Allentown (aw1) Tierpoint Bigger Capital codio

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