At 16:18 +0200 22/5/03, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:02 AM +0200 2003/05/22, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
So here is my proposal:
Sell the police reports as a premium service!
IMO, the problem is that the people who really need the service (those with unreachable servers and unreachable zones) are most likely the people who won't know that the premium service exists, or that they need it. Moreover, even if they know about it, they probably won't pay for it.
I would be inclined to turn this around. Make the service an integral part of the array of services that are provided, and put into the contract that if certain circumstances occur, you can be charged extra as a result of your negligence. You could even have the zone taken away from you, if things got really bad. The only people who "pay" are those who are causing problems.
While this seems a fine idea from a geeky point of view, who exactly is going to give the authority to the RIR to carry out such a task? And how is the RIR going to enforce this sort of "traffic violations"? ...
At the very least, a more coordinated and public "name and shame" campaign might possibly do some good.
Be careful with "name and shame" policies. People might start asking why an organisation they are giving money to (particularly if they have only one choice for that organisation) would go about "naming and shaming" them. Informational statistical reports are one thing. Targetting and enforcement are a very different game, one that most organisations would onyl swallow, and with difficullty, if it is presented as a "click here and you will correct the wrong stuff" type of project, that is: help rather than punish. Joao