[ripe-list] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2017 Recipients

> On 22 Dec 2017, at 15:39, Alistair Strachan <projectsfund at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following seven projects have be awarded funding for 2017:
> 
> Congratulations:
> 
> ...
> - Tajikistan K-Root DNS Mirror

Hmmm. An anycast root server instance doesn’t seem to be in scope for the Community Projects Fund. Surely a DNS server should have been paid for from a different NCC budget which is expressly for that sort of thing? IMO it’s a bad idea to intermix support for community projects with root server operations (or other routine NCC activities). This may well set an awkward precedent.

Suppose an NCC department overspends its budget. Could they apply to the Community Projects Fund to balance the books?

Now OK, it’s all ultimately funded by the one pool of NCC members’ money. But even so...