[dns-wg] Request for trusted party to provide secondary DNS services for the RIPE NCC’s zones

> On 25 Jul 2016, at 15:59, Romeo Zwart <romeo.zwart at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> The RIPE NCC requests proposals for service from a DNS service provider
> in order to improve the resiliency of the RIPE NCC's zones, especially
> ripe.net.
> 
> The submission deadline is Sunday, 14 August 2016.
> 
> For more details please see:
> 
> 
> https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/request-for-trusted-party-to-provide-secondary-dns-services

Thanks for this Romeo.

The above URL doesn’t say very much. Could you please provide some more details?

Are you expecting fully-baked and costed proposals by the mid-August deadline or just expressions of interest by then?

What sort of service levels and commitments are the NCC looking for from potential suppliers? eg: a 24x7 NOC, SLAs, minimum/maximum query rates, anycast/unicast provision, server location(s), diversity of DNS software, statistics/logging, incident handling & escalation, mandatory/optional protocol requirements, support for DNS features like RRL, etc, etc. Which things on this sort of shopping list are essential/desirable/optional?

It seems unrealistic/unreasonable to ask for responses when there’s so little information on what bidders are expected to be quoting on. Or what the "small number of additional zones” might be. [Do they include “.” or subdomains of .arpa? :-)] Or what is meant by a small number.

I also think it’s a bit optimistic to give bidders just three weeks to prepare their responses. More so during peak holiday season. Why the rush?