[dnsmon-user] Update on DNSMON service

Dear DNSMON users and contacts,

recently you have received personalized email regarding administrative 
changes to the DNSMON service. In the ideal world, we would have also 
informed you about other upcoming changes in the same message, but 
reality is bound to the Murphy's law... so I will approach you via the 
mailing list - this also gives you an opportunity to give us public 
feedback.

In September, the RIPE NCC membership approved the Charging Scheme
2013, which says that the DNSMON service must become a RIPE NCC
members-only service from 1 January, 2013.
The document is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-566

Although this will mean some administrative and technical changes,
we can assure you that DNS Monitoring will continue to be provided by 
the RIPE NCC. These changes give us the opportunity to provide better 
services. As a valued customer of the RIPE NCC, we hope
you will join us as we develop the DNS Monitoring service.

Administrative Changes
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 From 1 January 2013, only RIPE NCC members will be able to have their
domains monitored, and DNSMON will become membership service.
That means two different things:

If you are already RIPE NCC member, there will be no additional fee for 
DNSMON service in 2013. However, we do need you to sign an updated 
"DNSMON Service agreement" before the end of this year.

If you are *not* RIPE NCC member, and if you wish to continue to use 
DNSMON service, we will waive the sign-up fee of EUR 2,000
if you choose to become a RIPE NCC member before 1 January 2013.
	If you choose not to become RIPE NCC member, you can consider becoming 
a RIPE Atlas host or sponsor to monitor your DNS in another way.

For any admin questions, please write to ncc at ripe.net

Technical Changes
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For existing DNSMON clients, it is important to note that in 2013 we are
planning to transition DNSMON vantage points from TTM test boxes to RIPE
Atlas Anchors. We will be making an integration with RIPE Atlas, and the
data presentation and visualisation will be updated too.

We will be informing you of the more detailed plans in December.

Currently, we are focused on migrating the service of the existing 
clients; however, we will be opening the DNSMON service to other
TLD and ENUM operators in the second half of 2013.


We are looking forward to the challenges that these changes will bring,
and we invite you to work on this with us.

To help us with the development of DNSMON, we ask that you let us know 
what would you like to use DNSMON for and what improvements could be 
made to our services. You can reply to this email, or post to the 
mailing list:
https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/dnsmon-user


Best regards,
Vesna


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Vesna Manojlovic                                BECHA at ripe.net
Senior Community Builder                             +31205354444
for Measurements & Tools          RIPE NCC        http://ripe.net