[Atlas-anchors-pilot] Public contact details for anchor hosts?

Tore Anderson tore at fud.no
Fri Sep 20 15:18:26 CEST 2013


* Vesna Manojlovic

> As a preparation for production service, we thought that it would be 
> useful to the anchor operators if there would be a way for the RIPE 
> Atlas users to report connectivity problems, or any other findings that 
> come out from using your Anchor as a target.
> 
> Concrete questions I have for you:
> 
> - Do you want to have publicly available contact details, for the anchor 
> admin & technical contacts?
> 
> One idea we had is to ask all anchor hosts to keep that contact 
> information in RIPE database, and let us know the nic-handle.
> 
> - Would that be a practical solution for you?
> Or do you prefer to maintain these contact details on RIPE Atlas site?
> 
> Alternatively, we can also point the users to your ASN and let them find 
> the contact details themselves...
> 
> I am looking forward to your feedback.

For what it's worth I consider the RIPE NCC as the End User of the
assignment made to the Anchor. Accordingly, I've registered the
assignment using the RIPE NCC's contact details. This is per your own
instructions:

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/atlas-anchors-pilot/2013-April/000135.html

That said, I have no principal objection to adding our own NOC object as
an additional tech-c.

Tore



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