[ncc-services-wg] Re: Allow DNSMON services to monitor ENUM domains

Jim Reid píše v Čt 04. 10. 2007 v 14:34 +0100:
> Ondrej, I raised a number of issues about this proposal when you  
> first presented this to the ENUM WG. To the best of my knowledge  
> these have still not been resolved.
> 
> Wearing no hats, my concerns are as follows:
> 
> 1 DNS Monitoring is not a core NCC service. It should not be doing  
> this IMO. It's OK for the NCC to monitor its own name servers, but  
> that's all.
> 
> 2 By offering a commercial DNS Monitoring service, the NCC is  
> distorting the market. Its presence presents other organisations from  
> offering similar services because the barrier to entry has been  
> artificially increased. And on top of that the NCC has cherry-picked  
> the best customers.
> 
> 3 The costs of the NCC's DNS monitoring service are not clear. Which  
> raises the prospect of complaints about monopoly membership fees  
> cross-subsidising non-core commercial activities. This is a  
> particular worry of mine given that the NCC's initial investment in  
> name server monitoring was met from its membership fees.

I understand your concerns in Issue 1-3, but it seems to me, that you
are arguing with DNSMON service itself and not with my proposal which is
meant to broaden scope of DNSMON service.

> 4 If any monitoring of ENUM delegations was to be done by the NCC, it  
> must only be at the request of the Administration concerned. This  
> avoids issues about national sovereignty. I accept this is unlikely  
> to be a concern for many countries. But that will not be the case in  
> the parts of the world that are hostile to Internet governance in its  
> broadest sense being outside an international treaty organisation. It  
> would not be wise IMO to open another window for those sorts of  
> complaints and attacks.

Can you please clarify what do you mean by "at the request of the
Administration concerned"?  Who is Administration?  Tier-1 operator?

> Issues 1-3 have parallels with the historical situation of the NCC  
> providing DNS service for ccTLDs. That situation is beginning to get  
> untangled. And for the same reasons outlined above: non-core service,  
> competition concerns, cross-subsidy, etc. It seems unwise to be  
> opening up the same can of worms all over again just as an earlier  
> one is starting to get cleared up.

Ondrej.
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