While I’m open to PNI presenting their own solution to the DAO when it is production ready, I want to make clear that this proposal is specifically designed to put the altruist traffic under the authority of the DAO (since it is protocol traffic) and then delegate to CC with PNF’s oversight.
So far with PNI’s current load-balancing between providers, customers are getting more errors and latency than if PNI were to just use CC with all the providers we are already working with. POKT customers should get the best experience possible, and already CC has been able to identify anomalies in the traffic which has been used to find Portal issues. This kind of delegating of core-services, shared responsibility, and transparency is best for the network and its customers IMO.
From what we’ve learned from the altruist network already, I’d suggest that if PNI wants to invest into another alternative to bring altruist network in-house again, there should be:
- Full insight into its analytics
- DAO transparency on that traffic
- Real time QoS (where if a providers goes down or is behind, minimal relays are dropped with proper rerouting)
- Proper LBing (where multiple providers are being used simultaneous vs switching providers ever 5 min, like it is currently)
- Geo-routing so each Portal is connected to local nodes (which currently only CC offers)
- A holistic payment system for providers that involves the DAO and PNF (as we have extensively done)
- Data driven stress testing (as we have done)
- A proposal from the DAO that can be voted on (like we are doing now)
Personally, since CC already is providing a solution to the DAO for the altruist network, I’d prefer to see resources put into other areas of the network. CC’s providers already have this covered and have gone though extensive testing to verify that it can handle multiples of POKT’s current traffic. I don’t think CC needs to be reinvented and I don’t see the network value that will be gained from investing resources into an alternative, when it accounts for such little traffic. CC is already the alternative to the original altruist system and anyone can participate via the CC Community Towers.