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66 changes: 66 additions & 0 deletions pages/methodology.tsx
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<strong>Client diversity</strong> uses a simplified banded model; live network client
share thresholds are deferred to a future operator registry (v1.2 spec).
</p>
<p>
If no answer fits your setup, pick yellow — the{" "}
<a href="#nuances">nuances and limits</a> section lists the known cases.
</p>
</section>

<section id="nuances">
<h2>Nuances and limits</h2>
<p>
This section lists the nuances the assessment leaves out, so you can weigh them
yourself.
</p>

<h3>Why three colors</h3>
<p>
Real setups don&apos;t fall into neat green, yellow, and red buckets. We use three
colors anyway because they keep a result easy to read at a glance. If your setup falls
between two answers, pick yellow. If the gray area hides a single point of failure,
pick red.
</p>
<p>Known cases the questions don&apos;t spell out:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>Shared owner.</strong> Two key custodians inside one company fail together.
Score Key Custody yellow.
</li>
<li>
<strong>Derived distros.</strong> Ubuntu and Debian share upstream packaging. If your
distros share a supply chain, score OS Diversity yellow.
</li>
<li>
<strong>One physical host.</strong> Two OSes in VMs on one machine share that
machine. Score OS Diversity yellow.
</li>
<li>
<strong>Resold infrastructure.</strong> Two providers reselling the same cloud or
data centre fail together. Score Infrastructure yellow.
</li>
<li>
<strong>Active/passive failover.</strong> A warm standby still goes offline during
failover. The four infrastructure slices assume active/active; score them no higher
than yellow.
</li>
</ul>
<p>If you hit an ambiguity we haven&apos;t listed, pick yellow.</p>

<h3>The remote signer stack</h3>
<p>
Every current signing stack keeps a single point of failure somewhere, whether you run
Web3Signer, Dirk, Vero, Vouch, or Charon. Validator Beat doesn&apos;t score it:
penalizing something no setup can avoid would push everyone toward one architecture.
</p>

<h3>Hosting provider type</h3>
<p>
Validator Beat doesn&apos;t rank residential, bare metal, or cloud hosting. The
Infrastructure slice already scores provider concentration, which catches the real
trap: five regions all on AWS still fall to one provider incident.
</p>

<h3>CPU generation</h3>
<p>
Validator Beat counts instruction sets and ignores chip generations. Hardware bugs
sometimes hit one generation and sometimes a vendor&apos;s entire line, so mixing
generations guarantees nothing.
</p>
</section>

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