2013-09-04 13:02, Alex Saroyan skrev:
Hi,
Ripe atlas is sponsored by LIRs and other contributors such as probe hosts and sponsors, I have a feeling that it is not fair to make money selling services of platform which is supported by parties who are not stakeholders of the business. I don't propose to share business with all the sponsoring parties just mention that it is not fair.
When you use Atlas to measure your own network's quality and ensure your companies service quality is good enough then well - this is one of purposes of the Atlas especially when you are a host or sponsor. But selling Atlas service which belongs to community and not to one company then it sounds sad.
Hi, As Stephane says, there seems to be something that hinders the use for commercial purposes. But I think nobody got himself a probe for others to make money off. But I could imagine that there is a radio button on my probe page to indicate that "we" (probe owner) agree that you will use this probe for that purpose, and that a certain amount of the revenue goes back to the atlas/ripe/probe-owners. regards, /bengan
Regards. /Alex Saroyan
On 09/04/2013 02:31 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
Hello, happy Atlasers,
After reading <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/future-of-ripe-ncc-technical-services>
(specially the part about using Atlas to monitor reachability from Nagios), the ToS <https://atlas.ripe.net/service-rules/> and checking the FAQ <https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/>, I still have a question:
Can I use Atlas as a basis for commercial services?
Today, most Atlas uses seem to be for public research, or for "selfish" measurements (checking my network). But I see nothing forbidding people to sell services (monitoring, quality assessment) to other people, based on Atlas. Is it on purpose?
[Yes, I have one or two business ideas and I would like to know before I continue developing them.]