[ncc-services-wg] Re: Allow DNSMON services to monitor ENUM domains
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Ondřej Surý
ondrej.sury at nic.cz
Mon Oct 8 11:29:49 CEST 2007
Jim Reid píše v Čt 04. 10. 2007 v 14:34 +0100: > Ondrej, I raised a number of issues about this proposal when you > first presented this to the ENUM WG. To the best of my knowledge > these have still not been resolved. > > Wearing no hats, my concerns are as follows: > > 1 DNS Monitoring is not a core NCC service. It should not be doing > this IMO. It's OK for the NCC to monitor its own name servers, but > that's all. > > 2 By offering a commercial DNS Monitoring service, the NCC is > distorting the market. Its presence presents other organisations from > offering similar services because the barrier to entry has been > artificially increased. And on top of that the NCC has cherry-picked > the best customers. > > 3 The costs of the NCC's DNS monitoring service are not clear. Which > raises the prospect of complaints about monopoly membership fees > cross-subsidising non-core commercial activities. This is a > particular worry of mine given that the NCC's initial investment in > name server monitoring was met from its membership fees. I understand your concerns in Issue 1-3, but it seems to me, that you are arguing with DNSMON service itself and not with my proposal which is meant to broaden scope of DNSMON service. > 4 If any monitoring of ENUM delegations was to be done by the NCC, it > must only be at the request of the Administration concerned. This > avoids issues about national sovereignty. I accept this is unlikely > to be a concern for many countries. But that will not be the case in > the parts of the world that are hostile to Internet governance in its > broadest sense being outside an international treaty organisation. It > would not be wise IMO to open another window for those sorts of > complaints and attacks. Can you please clarify what do you mean by "at the request of the Administration concerned"? Who is Administration? Tier-1 operator? > Issues 1-3 have parallels with the historical situation of the NCC > providing DNS service for ccTLDs. That situation is beginning to get > untangled. And for the same reasons outlined above: non-core service, > competition concerns, cross-subsidy, etc. It seems unwise to be > opening up the same can of worms all over again just as an earlier > one is starting to get cleared up. Ondrej. -- Ondřej Surý technický ředitel/Chief Technical Officer ----------------------------------------- CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. -- .cz domain registry Americká 23,120 00 Praha 2,Czech Republic mailto:ondrej.sury at nic.cz http://nic.cz/ sip:ondrej.sury at nic.cz tel:+420.222745110 mob:+420.739013699 fax:+420.222745112 -----------------------------------------
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