SIRCE Developments (long)
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 00:05:30 +0100
Dear contributors, dear colleagues,
the final state of commitments on December 2nd was just short of ECU 40k
coming from 44 sources. Thank you all!
Organisation name Person commit (ECU)
pi.se AB Pontus Ekman 1000
ACONET Wilfried Woeber 1000
RedIRIS-CSIC Victor Castelo 1000
Academic Computer Centre, CYFRONET-KRAKO Karol Franczak 500
IPGlobal, Informatica e Telecomunicacoes Pedro Ramalho Carlos 500
Teleport C&S GmbH. Christoph Maerk 500
BT Public Internet Service Nigel Roy Titley 1000
Tele Greenland Michael Schultz 1000
SpaceNet GmbH Sebastian v. Bomhard 750
Unisource Business Networks Italy Mauro Magrassi 1000
Sontheimer Datentechnik GmbH Bernd Sontheimer 500
ECRC GmbH Dave Morton 1000
Tele2/SWIPnet Jorgen Ericsson 1000
Nacamar Klaus Landefeld 1000
SIBS - Sociedade Interbancaria de Servic Jose Eduardo Pina Mi 1000
LITNET Daiva Tamulioniene 500
INRIA Annie Renard 500
EUnet Communications Services BV Per Gregers Bilse 1500
HogiaNet Kenneth Hybner 1000
AT&T Internet Services Tankut Turhan, Henk 1000
CESNET Pavel Vachek 500
OTEnet S.A. Theodore Thanopoulos 1000
HEAnet John Hayden 1000
U-NET Limited Stuart Muckley 500
Telia AB J=F6rgen I Larsson 1000
GTN Andreas Baess 1000
INS GmbH Andreas Frackowiak 1000
NASK - Research and Academic Network in Krzysztof Silicki 500
Xlink Michael Rotert 1000
Entreprise des Postes et Telecommunicati Thierry Coutelier 500
HPT - Croatian Post and Telecomm, Teleco Ivan Sedinic 1000
Unisource Business Networks (Schweiz) AG Philip Bridge 1000
Clinet Heikki Suonsivu 1000
InComA Ltd. Gregory Dmitriev 1000
Internet ProLink Mickey Coggins 500
MAZ Internet Services Rainer Lillge 1000
IFS Daniel David 1000
Unisource Business Networks NL bv Rob Reitsma 1000
Global One Sweden Eric Malmstrom 1000
LF.net GmbH i.G. Kurt Jaeger 500
NLnet Services bv Aris Doelman 1000
Transpac France/Global One Bernard Malaval 2000
I.NET S.p.A Marco Negri 1000
Telecom Finland Pasi-Mikko Rautanen 1000
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Total: 39250
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This represents just 10% of the current contributors and about a quarter
of the amount we considered necessary to justify the project as proposed
in ripe-150. From this we have to conclude that at this time there is
not enough interest in the service among our current constituency to
justify such an ambitious pilot service carried out at the RIPE NCC.
I have therefore withdrawn the NCC's proposal. Obviously there is some
disappointment because we would have liked to do the job. On the other
hand I am quite happy that we did not embark on this project with very
short preparation only to find out then that the support was less than
expected. We will let you know when TERENA has decided about the award
of the SIRCE project. You can then consider supporting the particular
effort TERENA will select.
I'd also like to thank the 51 people who responded to the questionnaire.
Here are the results:
n %
51 100 Total
47 92 STI likes that NCC asks feedback this way
46 90 ST9 We are satisfied with current NCC services
44 86 STG questionanaire easy to understand
35 69 STA RIPE should start security coord WG
35 69 ST4 have looked at ripe-150 (proposal)
26 51 ST6 not enough time to consider
22 43 ST5 should have been discussed at RIPE meeting
11 22 STB do not contribute because too vague
11 22 ST2 SIRCE needed in a couple of years
9 18 STF TERENA involvement makes it too complicated
9 18 STE do not contribute because too expensive
7 14 STD do not contribute because we do not need it
6 12 STJ do not contribute until selctin process complete
4 8 ST1 SIRCE not needed at this time
3 6 STC do not contribute because NCC not the right place
3 6 ST8 NCC should not start new services
3 6 ST7 NCC should not do incident coordination
0 0 STH questionnaire took too much time
0 0 ST3 SIRCE not useful at all
This further supports that the SIRCE service is currently not perceived
as very urgent by many ISPs but that it may become more important
in the future.
A clear lesson I personally have learned from this is that the consensus
building process within RIPE and the NCC contributors committee is
a delicate one which takes time and careful consideration by all
concerned. It is a good process which has served us very well so far.
I will take great care to respect it better than I did in this particular
matter.
The NCC team and I will now do our best to increase the number of you who
are saisfied with our current services from a good 90% to as near to
100% as we can make it.
Regards
D. Karrenberg