On 27/12/17 10:39, Jim Reid wrote: > >> On 22 Dec 2017, at 15:39, Alistair Strachan <[email protected]> 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... > >
The selection committee is independent of the NCC. I guess the question should be addressed to them. Nigel
