[address-policy-wg] RIPE DB: disclosure of commertial information

Hi Max,


president at ukraine.su (Max Tulyev) wrote:

> Most of major clients really are friends and don't change connection to anyone 
> else. But some is just clients just using service - and will switch to others 
> if there will be an [financial] reason. Having addressing database (with 
> contact person, especially technical) there is easy to do this.

Well, if you have like, say, dialup customers, you may easily set aside
a dialup-pool, enter this - registered to yourself (the ISP) - into the
RIPE DB, and everything's fine.

(Dynamic-IP) Dialup access has always been done with pools; the documentation
necessity begins with statically-assigned adresses or networks.


> So it seems to be good for you to share commertial information of ISP, and it 
> should not be secret. Escalating the situation: will we need the 
> connection-price: field in database? Why?

I do not know how it is in Russia currently, but in Germany, the cost of
an Internet connection is not only experienced through the retail price,
but through other factors (services given, support, uptime, quality) as
well. If you are on a bargaining market, you might stick to dialup/dynamic
access and go the "best practice" I described above. If you want to deliver
quality Internet, this quality thing does not only go towards your customer,
it has to be brought towards the Internet (here: The RIPE community), too.

Elmar.

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