...well, from the point of view of the customers "asking" DANTE to provide this service, it's probably a coordinated action, isn't it?
If this is the case, that's fine with me. However, I've spoken to too many people being surprised by the DANTA announcement, so it didn't appear *that* coordinated.
I fully agree with your line of thoughts! However the trust aspect and confidentiality somehow contradicts the idea of putting up a (commercial) tendering process..
It's not necessarily more commercial than the DANTE offering. At least, it will give interested parties a chance to participate on equal terms.
Or have TERENA do the "tendering" (more like asking for qualified volunteers) and then provide the financial clearinghouse?
That's what I thought would happen, and such a Call for Tender has indeed been prepared by TERENA, as far as I know, which has given me the feeling that the TERENA activity in that area was pre-empted by DANTE's announcement of a service. Maybe somebody from TERENA and/or DANTE cares to comment about that? At least one of your customers is a bit confused about these semi- or fully-parallel CERT/CC activities, so please clarify the situation! CHeers --HaL -- /==========================================================================\ | Hannes P. Lubich Voice: +41 1 268 15 55 (direct) 15 50 (line) | | SWITCH Head Office Fax : +41 1 268 15 68 | | Limmatquai 138 Mail : lubich@switch.ch | | CH-8001 Zurich Mail : S=lubich; O=switch; P=switch; A=arcom; C=ch; | | Switzerland Phys : 47 23'N, 8 33' E, GMT + 1 | | More : "finger @macHaL.switch.ch" (if switched on) | \==========================================================================/