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

ncc-services-wg-admin at ripe.net wrote on 06/10/2007 10:43:55:

> 
> On 4 Oct 2007, at 14:34, Jim Reid wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I think DNSMON is used for something completely different to real 
> commercial monitoring services like alertsite.com and similar. 
> Furthermore, can I get information about the availability/quality of 
> root servers from the commercial guys ?  For free ?  I use this data 
> from time to time, as do many more people in the community at large, 
> and if RIPE didn't do it, someone else would.  RIPE do it extremely 
> well, and have the historical data - please let them continue.
> 
I just wanted to add my voice to the discussion.

We rely on the data provided by DNSMON to monitor the global reachability 
of the .uk nameservers. The tool is used to assess our performance against 
KPIs and as a diagnostic tool. Given its usefulness I would certainly want 
to extend it to monitor ENUM nameservers. I can see the concern that Jim 
has, but the fact remains: If the service is not provided by RIPE, who 
would provide it? Who else has the traffic measurement boxes so well 
distributed? Not to mention the professional resources and experience.

Regards,

Ian