[ripe-list] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2017 Recipients

On 27/12/17 10:39, Jim Reid wrote:
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>> On 22 Dec 2017, at 15:39, Alistair Strachan <projectsfund at ripe.net> wrote:
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>> The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following seven projects have be awarded funding for 2017:
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>> Congratulations:
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>> ...
>> - Tajikistan K-Root DNS Mirror
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> Hmmm. An anycast root server instance doesn’t seem to be in scope for the Community Projects Fund. Surely a DNS server should have been paid for from a different NCC budget which is expressly for that sort of thing? IMO it’s a bad idea to intermix support for community projects with root server operations (or other routine NCC activities). This may well set an awkward precedent.
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> Suppose an NCC department overspends its budget. Could they apply to the Community Projects Fund to balance the books?
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> Now OK, it’s all ultimately funded by the one pool of NCC members’ money. But even so...
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The selection committee is independent of the NCC. I guess the question
should be addressed to them.

Nigel