[atlas] Using Atlas for commercial services

Hi,


Ripe atlas is sponsored by LIRs and other contributors such as probe 
hosts and sponsors, I have a feeling that it is not fair to make money 
selling services of platform which is supported by parties who are not 
stakeholders of the business.
I don't propose to share business with all the sponsoring parties just 
mention that it is not fair.

When you use Atlas to measure your own network's quality and ensure your 
companies service quality is good enough then well - this is one of 
purposes of the Atlas especially when you are a host or sponsor. But 
selling Atlas service which belongs to community and not to one company 
then it  sounds sad.

Regards.
/Alex Saroyan

On 09/04/2013 02:31 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Hello, happy Atlasers,
>
> After reading
> <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kranjbar/future-of-ripe-ncc-technical-services>
> (specially the part about using Atlas to monitor reachability from
> Nagios), the ToS <https://atlas.ripe.net/service-rules/> and checking
> the FAQ <https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/>, I still have a question:
>
> Can I use Atlas as a basis for commercial services?
>
> Today, most Atlas uses seem to be for public research, or for
> "selfish" measurements (checking my network). But I see nothing
> forbidding people to sell services (monitoring, quality assessment) to
> other people, based on Atlas. Is it on purpose?
>
> [Yes, I have one or two business ideas and I would like to know before
> I continue developing them.]
>