At 11:17 AM 10-09-03 +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: My view: RIPE NCC should only monitor those ccTLDs that are LIRs or that their LIR is willing to endorse. -Hank
[sorry about the useless re-post to dns-wg, finger trouble ....]
On 10.09 04:58, Joerg Schumacher wrote:
... Mind adding the nameservers for .ORG to the monitoring? I'd be interested in the effects of the recent change in the root zone. Having only two nameservers for a tld and both of them in a single AS makes me kind of nervous. ...
Weiteres Nachdenken ergab:
While we so far have only monitored TLDs with whome we have some contact, we can certainly also monitor any TLD if there is an expressed interest from the RIPE community. Thechnically this is no problem at all. Configuring it takes all of 5 minutes and even the alpha version of the analysis web site on the development server box can easily take the load.
However there is a more principle problem and that is why I copied ncc-services:
Currently there is a heated debate about (new) NCC services and their cost. One question asked over and over again there is: Why should NCC members pay for this service? For dnsmon my answer is that they are interested in seeing the data, just like Joerg; they are also interested that the data is collected professionally and neutrally, so that they can point all sorts of people to it. Most importantly they can use it to take action if TLD service, a service vital to their business, should not be adawquate. So very generally this data helps to keep the DNS stable in a number of ways; that benefits the whole community in general and the RIPE NCC membership in particular.
However, quite obviously, the TLD administrators concerned also benefit from this data. They can use it direcly to monitor their operations. They can also use it in the same way as the NCC membership: they can point third parties to it and say that independent and professional measurements show that they are doing a good job. So why should they not pay a fair share of the cost? So far the TLDs we monitor have agreed informally to do that, once the service becomes fully operational.
I have had a number of questions like Joerg's already for all gTLDs besides .MIL. I see little chance that we can get them all to agree to pay a share of the cost. I also see that the overhead of making agreements with some of the organisations involoved can be prohibitive. If there is interest from the RIPE community it is easy to monitor these domains. However it is very difficult to do it for some for free and ask the others to pay. So doing that may lead to a situation where the RIPE NCC membership ends up paying the whole bill. I would actually like that because it makes the measurements even more independent and I would not have to invest time into making agreements with the TLD admins, billing, etc. pp.
But is this acceptable to the RIPE NCC memebrship in the long run?
Comments please!
Daniel