[ncc-services-wg] dnsmon - why?

Randy Bush wrote:
> at some ripe meeting or another, i presented a bit of research.  in
> that research, we conducted an experiment using some "BGP Beacons."
> within weeks, ripe/ncc had set up a bunch of these beacons, in a
> fashion that was not usable for our experiments and with no clear
> goal other than <aol>ME TOO</AOL>.  to my knowledge, no researcher
> has used them to date.  all i could figure out was "if we hear of
> it, we must do it too."

... another handy thing to use some of that surplus budget and staff on
again.

What has DNSMON got to do with assignment of IP & ASes ?

Peter