[ncc-services-wg] Re: [dns-wg] Re: dnsmon / .org

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On 10.09 17:15, Johan Ihren wrote:
> Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> writes:
> > Who is selling DNSSEC courses? The whole point of DISI is to kick-start
> 
> We do. 

I was not aware of that. 
So given that, should we stop DISI and other kick-start like things.
Or is the benefit to the membership as-a-whole and the community more important?


> PS. With the Autonomica hat on: we also do DNS monitoring, quite
> similar to dnsmon, and for exactly the same reasons, i.e. to monitor
> our various DNS services, i.root-servers.net being one of them. To
> offset our costs for this we are offering this service on some sort of
> cost recovery basis to interested parties like TLDs.

Interesting. I have never seen any of it or seen it quoted anywhere.

> In the end this is all about education. Everyone needs to understand
> that there is a cost associated with providing a service. If the
> service is offered "for free" that is just a metaphor for "someone
> else is paying for it".

Yes. And that someone else whould do so willingly of course.

Daneil