On 04/02/2022 11.30, Petr Špaček wrote:
it's hard to see how add more money on that pile would be of any help
Well, of course the scale is off charts compared to the grant. If you look at the 14M euro and divide it by the number of ISP subscribers in the EU, it will be like a few cents. And it's a one-off sum. Compare that to the monthly amount they pay for internet connection. With these millions someone might be able to build a backup in case ISP DNS is broken (for not-too-many people at once). But it sounded like "they" imagine it capable of *constantly* servicing a significant fraction of EU subscribers (like Google does, for example), without any hint about how the operation costs could be financed. Or yes, as (5) suggests, in DNS SW a similar sum can make a really big difference, but I can't be impartial there :-) --Vladimir | knot-resolver.cz