[atlas] Using Atlas for commercial services
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Bengt Gördén
bengan at resilans.se
Wed Sep 4 13:36:39 CEST 2013
2013-09-04 13:02, Alex Saroyan skrev: > Hi, > > > Ripe atlas is sponsored by LIRs and other contributors such as probe > hosts and sponsors, I have a feeling that it is not fair to make money > selling services of platform which is supported by parties who are not > stakeholders of the business. > I don't propose to share business with all the sponsoring parties just > mention that it is not fair. > > When you use Atlas to measure your own network's quality and ensure > your companies service quality is good enough then well - this is one > of purposes of the Atlas especially when you are a host or sponsor. > But selling Atlas service which belongs to community and not to one > company then it sounds sad. > Hi, As Stephane says, there seems to be something that hinders the use for commercial purposes. But I think nobody got himself a probe for others to make money off. But I could imagine that there is a radio button on my probe page to indicate that "we" (probe owner) agree that you will use this probe for that purpose, and that a certain amount of the revenue goes back to the atlas/ripe/probe-owners. regards, /bengan > Regards. > /Alex Saroyan > > On 09/04/2013 02:31 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> Hello, happy Atlasers, >> >> After reading >> <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/future-of-ripe-ncc-technical-services> >> >> (specially the part about using Atlas to monitor reachability from >> Nagios), the ToS <https://atlas.ripe.net/service-rules/> and checking >> the FAQ <https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/>, I still have a question: >> >> Can I use Atlas as a basis for commercial services? >> >> Today, most Atlas uses seem to be for public research, or for >> "selfish" measurements (checking my network). But I see nothing >> forbidding people to sell services (monitoring, quality assessment) to >> other people, based on Atlas. Is it on purpose? >> >> [Yes, I have one or two business ideas and I would like to know before >> I continue developing them.] >> > >
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