On Dec 11, 4:44pm, Simon Poole wrote:
Subject: Re: DANTE CERT Service ...
Why would anybody fund a competitor to provide this service?
Sorry, but the only way to go is via a trusted, neutral organisation (Ripe, perhaps Terena). -IF- European level coordination is needed in the first place, of which I remain unconvinced.
Somehow it appears to me that all this discussion comes up because of DANTE's difficult role of being financed mostly by academic network organiz ations (="neutral"?) however DANTE being a competitive service provider. My impression is that the role of providing neutral ground for organizations like CERTs should/can be taken over by federations like EurOpen for Europe and the respective national groups like EurOpen.SE (Sweden), GUUG (Germany), NLUUG (The Netherlands) & UKUUG (United Kingdom) and the others. More info about EurOpen and the others can be found e.g. at http://iaix3.informatik.htw-dresden.de/unix_europen.html Regards, Claus Kalle Board member of the German Unix Users Group -- Claus Kalle, University of Cologne Regional Computing Center i i Systems and Networking Dept. M M The E-Mail: Kalle@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE /I\ /I\ Cologne Phone: +49 221 478 5580 MIIIIIM Cathedral Fax: +49 221 478 5590 MiMiMiM Snail-Mail: Robert-Koch-Str. 10, 50931 Koeln MIMiMiM Germany