This one is tricky. DFINITY has 42 nodes in total, and there are 37 subnets. In the NNS subnet we have 3 of our nodes, so that already puts us into 39 nodes used at all times. There are only 3 spare nodes.
There is 1 degraded node in Stockholm that we have to look into, and there are 3 nodes in zh2 that we started redeploying as a part of maintenance (switch to a new HSM-less node operator), but we can’t complete the node redeployment because we the 2 “unused” zh2 nodes have already been added to other subnet membership change proposals and we now have no other free unused nodes to add to these subnets as a replacement.
So we’re basically out of DFINITY nodes.
We’ll have to deal with this in the coming period, but for now I’ll just propose to replace the dead zh2 DFINITY node with another non-DFINITY node. And then we’ll have to follow up with another proposal to add back a healthy DFINITY node into the subnet.
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