[mat-wg] Using Atlas for commercial services

* Richard Barnes
> On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> 
>> stephane,
>> 
>> i realize that your intent is not evil.  but i fear this will not
>> scale very well.  when the 42nd commercial project raises the
>> load/traffic so that research is no longer viable and these dinky
>> things are overloaded, we'll get "but those 41 commercial products
>> use it, not letting me do so is unfair restraint of trade."
>> 
>> "yes dear, your picking that flower would not really harm the park.
>> but if everyone did it ..."
>> 
>> randy
> 
> +1
> 
> In principle, I don't mind the idea of commercial services using
> Atlas.  But I don't see a good way to manage the load.

But isn't load management *precisely* why the credit system exists?

For what it's worth, I consider that I'm already using Atlas in a
commercial way. The LIR I represent is a commercial for-profit entity
with a commercial for-profit network. The Anchor on my network is paid
for by my LIRs commercial activities. If I'm using the Atlas network to
debug my commercial network I'm doing it solely for commercial reasons.

Say I wrote a script or piece of software that used Atlas to perform
some measurements or debugging or whatever, that's not a problem either,
is it? If I choose give away that script to others, still no problem,
right? Does it really matter to the Atlas network whether I charge money
for it as a commercial product, rather than throwing it up on github for
anyone to use as they wished?

Tore