Vesna, "Vesna Manojlovic" wrote the following on 04/07/2012 16:07:
Dear colleagues,
We received a lot of feedback from the community after we announced our proposal to discontinue TTM at RIPE 64. After reviewing the RIPE community's feedback and reevaluating our own planning, we are pleased to announce that we will continue supporting TTM until sometime in 2013.
I think this is to be welcomed. As I mentioned at RIPE 64 I cannot argue with the basic idea of shutting down TTM, but revised timelines would seem to be an excellent idea given the feedback and the questions raised after the last announcement.
As presented during the MAT Working Group and RIPE NCC Services Working Group sessions at RIPE 64, we plan to implement RIPE Atlas Anchors and to migrate DNSMON functionality to RIPE Atlas. We will do this in parallel to the current TTM infrastructure in order to give the RIPE community enough time to build confidence in and test the new infrastructure.
Again, a good move. While I'm not a DNSMON user myself, I think this was one of the biggest issues with the previous plan.
We will give you more details about transition in early September and look forward to discussing our proposed plans with you at RIPE 65 in Amsterdam.
Indeed, I think that a proposed plan and discussion is greatly to be preferred over the previous fait accompli. HEAnet are very happy to continue to be a TTM host until such times as the alternative is in place and the project is shut down in an agreed and structured manner. Thanks, Brian.