[ncc-services-wg] dnsmon - why?

At 09:11 PM 05-09-03 +0200, Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) wrote:

>Besides responding to the question raised by you, we spoke to several BGP
>experts afterwards, and all seemed to agree that this was a good idea, so
>we did it.
>
>And before anybody complains that all this cost money, the beacons come
>essentially for free with the RIS infrastructure, setting them up was half
>an afternoon of work for 1 engineer, maintaining them is a matter of
>minutes per week.

The dnsmon service might we wonderful and better than anything out there 
and I may even end up using it.  My point is that now that there is an 
ncc-services list, that the RIPE NCC, whenever a new service is decided 
upon, that a message be sent to the ncc-services list, giving a short 
description of the service, the rationale for setting it up, and the 
estimated budget and manpower needed to run the service.  This will save us 
all from having to monitor the 20 or so WG lists for new services being 
planned and then finding out about it when it is too late.

>Henk

-Hank