Hallo Sabine, lange nichts gehoert ... On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:51:11AM +0200, Sabine Dolderer/Denic wrote:

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At least each IXP member would have direct connectivity to such infrastructural services (DNS, NTP, WHOIS, NNTP??) and thereby their customers would benefit from it.

I agree that IXPs would be very gould locations as they offer network diversity, but there is one question still open and that is who will be the one running the and monitoring the server. And we at DENIC have seen in the last years an increasing demand in running the servics by ourself as only then we have the complete control and information about statistics, network attacks, performance ...

Keep it simple ... the IXPs (e.g. Euro-IX) could/should provide the basis. I.e. taking care for excellent colo, sufficient connectivity, one-stop-shop etc. Interested parties would install the services by themselves and would be responsible to run them. Parties could be CENTR, DE-NIC, ICANN, EUxxx and so on. I would like to know more about the CENTR sss iniative. Whom should I contact? Arnold -- Arnold Nipper Email: arnold.nipper@de-cix.net DE-CIX, The German Internet Exchange Mobile: +49 172 2650958