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[kevin <krattai AT gmail.com>]

This is a good, necessary, and difficult discussion and I'm glad to see
it happening, although perhaps this specific detail should have it's own
thread.

I would rather propose that any who are interested in monetizing their
servers to operate as a separate entity to OpenNIC, while still
retaining and maintaining a direct, community relation.

In most open projects, the topic of money and monetizing comes up and
there are always to two, polar viewpoints.  And as is historically
evident, it splits a group with one core going in one direction,
creating a fork, leaving the remaining position to try to deal with
what's left.

Rather than having those that are absolutely opposed to having OpenNIC
changing its mandate of free/libre, run by volunteers utilizing donated
infrastructure, it would perhaps be more valuable and valid that those
interested in monetizing, form a fork that utilizes OpenNIC resource,
while providing some business value.

Scale is not an issue when using a distributed system that in fact, by
nature, scales.

Cheers,

Kevin

On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 17:26 +0100, Simon Castano wrote:
<snip>
> On 2016-12-08 04:28, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> > From a common sense perspective at the moment, it makes no sense to 
> > charge
> > for domains because OpenNIC--while being the largest alt-root--still 
> > has no
> > significant usage in the real world. But OpenNIC as a project should 
> > not be
> > about limiting the rights of TLD operators; and it shouldn't force the
> > distribution of said earnings among all contributors to the project 
> > either.
> 
> I could not have said it better. Gratis works nice at the moment but if 
> OpenNIC were to scale I trust that most operator could not affoard 
> high-end / high-capacity and we need to make sure we can scale as 
> appropriate.

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