On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Joao Luis Silva Damas <joao@bondis.org> wrote a message of 232 lines which said:
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.
I feel I'm disagreeing here. But it depends on whether the statement says that "Internet Access Providers SHOULD provide a DNS resolver" or "End users MUST use the IAP's DNS resolver". (I would agree on the first interpretation, not the second: it's not our business to claim that third-party resolvers are good or bad, the Internet is permissionless, people MAY use 3rd-party resolvers.)
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.
Not just IAP, everyone. Against the big GAFA resolvers, we do not need a big European resolver but many of resolvers.