The DFINITY Foundation is voting ADOPT on proposals 135838 and 135839 that finalize a series of proposals that temporarily reduce the number of nodes from connected Node Providers in critical subnets. These proposals swap a few nodes belonging to a set of Node Providers out of the critical subnets, treating them as single “cluster.” This connection among the Node Providers is public information, declared by the group (Geonodes LLC, George Bassadone, and Bianca-Martina Rohner) themselves: George and Bianca are both linked to Geonodes LLC due to co-ownership.
While these and previous proposals are made as a short-term precautionary measure, recent discussions have identified the need to establish a clear policy defining what constitutes independence among node providers and taking into account during subnet allocation. More concrete suggestions on the policy and its implementation will be discussed with the Node Providers and the rest of the community.