On 04. 02. 22 10:54, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
3. RIPE Community believes that the responsibility of well-functioning Internet access including the DNS resolution is with the access providers. We believe it should stay that way.
4. We understand that to be able to minimise some risks when the end user selects a random DNS resolver, a possible and feasible solution is to have the access provider run their local DNS resolvers and/or an additional DNS resolver as a back-up.
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We hope that the EU could allocate DNS4EU funds to the local Internet community and encourage Internet access providers to run their local DNS resolvers. Additionally, the funds can be also used towards the development of open source software for better and affordable DNS resolution services.
Generally, I agree that DNS resolution should be part of "access service", but at the same time I'm curious how people imagine that adding funding to the telco sector will help with DNS reliability. Picking randomly one of the big telcos, let's see what it has to say: https://www.telekom.com/en/investor-relations/publications/financial-results see slide no. 9. It does not suggest that access to funding might be a problem. If there is an issue with funding DNS then it is an allocation issue withing the company, not lack of funding, so it's hard to see how add more money on that pile would be of any help. Again, I'm not picking here at DT. Other big telcos report similarly grandiose financials. -- Petr Špaček speaking only for myself