[atlas] Using Atlas for commercial services

2013-09-04 13:02, Alex Saroyan skrev:
> 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.
>

Hi,

As Stephane says, there seems to be something that hinders the use for 
commercial purposes. But I think nobody got himself a probe for others 
to make money off. But I could imagine that there is a radio button on 
my probe page to indicate that "we" (probe owner) agree that you will 
use this probe for that purpose, and that a certain amount of the 
revenue goes back to the atlas/ripe/probe-owners.

regards,

/bengan


> 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.]
>>
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