[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] The Future of the RIPE Database Proxy Service

On Mar 9, 2013, at 01:02, Nick Hilliard <nick at netability.ie> wrote:

> I can't see a compelling reason to make it into a member-only service, and
> the existing organisations who use the service seem to gain some value from
> it, so discontinuing it probably isn't in the best interest of the RIPE
> NCC's core purpose of being a RIR.  As there are only 4 users of the
> service, there seems little point in charging.  I'd be happy to see this
> turned into a free but contract-based service.

A reality check?

Are we seriously having a multi-month discussion involving numerous emails from the CEO of the RIPE NCC about a service that has *four* active users?

This while services that have untold millions of users still have outages because of silly things like partial zone files being deployed?

Is there some compelling advantage to the RIPE NCC membership or greater internet community in keeping the Proxy Service alive? If not, shall we just pull the plug on it?

Alex Le Heux
Kobo Inc.

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