[dns-wg] Re: dnsmon / .org

On Wednesday, 10 Sep 2003, Daniel Karrenberg writes:

Daniel

> While we so far have only monitored TLDs with whome we have some contact, 
> we can certainly also monitor any TLD if there is an expressed interest 
> from the RIPE community.  Thechnically this is no problem at all.  
> Configuring it takes all of 5 minutes and even the alpha version
> of the analysis web site on the development server box can easily take
> the load. 

Here the views of a (small) ccTLD (CH):

1. Monitoring TLD name servers from different points on earth in
   a, let's say 'standardized' way, and publish such data is
   welcome. The points to clarify here are: standardized and
   'such', the later designating a subset of all possible 
   measurements or everything. The standardization aspect is
   is IMO more interesting: we need an RFC for these measurements.

2. Since this kind of monitoring can be bought from e.g. UltraDNS,
   it may be wise not enter in any competition, meaning it should
   have a price tag.

3. If it has aprice tag, people will want to know what to get
   for the money, meaning an SLA is required. An SLA is a
   contract with technical, organizational, legal and administrative
   definitions.

4. It is to be determined if RIPE NCC is the appropriate org to
   offer such services. Good: neutral, professional, some hard-
   and software already in place and can be used; bad: not
   really RIPE's core business, the competition with commercial
   firms. How about a RIPE-spin-off, Netlabs, etc. ?

Summary: desirable service, still much to be defined. 


Marcel