[atlas] Using Atlas for commercial services

On 9/4/2013 at 12:31 PM Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

|Hello, happy Atlasers,
|
|After reading
|<https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/future-of-ripe-ncc-technical-se
rvices>
|(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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I would not want my network hosting the probe to be used for commercial
purposes because, among myriad other reasons, I do not have a business
connection with my ISP.