Ccing to ncc-services-wg. Short summary: Discussion started on enum-wg whether DNSMON service should be extended to ENUM registry operators as well. Patrik summarized discussion so far in several points in mail I am replying at. You can find start of the thread at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/enum-wg/2007/msg00024.html Patrik Fältström píše v Čt 10. 05. 2007 v 15:08 +0300:
I see a number of different questions being discussed here, and I think we should try to separate them:
1. RIPE NCC is running DNS for e164.arpa 2. RIPE NCC should "protect their skin" and monitor the e164.arpa zone, so they can show their service is up to current standards
Shouldn't RIPE NCC do the same for all its delegations. I would broaden scope of this point to monitoring reverse delegations as well.
3. Registry operators run DNS for zones delegated from e164.arpa, and the delegation itself should be of some quality for ENUM to work -- who has responsible for this?
I think that responsibility lies in registry operators hands, but NCC should do monitoring and step-in if quality is too low. I don't have idea right now what "step-in" and "quality is too low" definition is.
4. Registry operators have interest in being monitored, should they be monitored, or (via opt-in) on request?
You probably already know my opinion on that point :-), but together with previous points it gets more complicated. If answer to 2 and 3 is YES, then I think that they should be monitored and on opt-in request they could receive results/warnings/etc. Without opt-in it would be only from RIPE NCC internal needs.
5. If there is a need for monitoring of DNS operation, is RIPE-NCC to do that monitoring (they already do in the case of dnsmon)?
Let's put another POV in play. If DNSMON was outsourced to let's say commercial service, who will ensure quality of such monitoring? I don't think that niche in this market is so big, that it will self-regulate, because of competition. Then there would be need to _monitor_ monitoring to ensure 2 and 3. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý technický ředitel/Chief Technical Officer ----------------------------------------- CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o. -- .cz domain registry Americká 23,120 00 Praha 2,Czech Republic mailto:ondrej.sury@nic.cz http://nic.cz/ sip:ondrej.sury@nic.cz tel:+420.222745110 mob:+420.739013699 fax:+420.222745112 -----------------------------------------