The details has been provided on OARC members list, so I’ll let Keith and Matt to decide the level of detail to provide, but the service is being hosted by a professional organization and is subject to confidentiality agreement. OARC Mattermost (the software) is not being run by OARC staff.
Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý (He/Him) ond...@sury.org > On 25. 8. 2020, at 8:19, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.email> wrote: > > Is this something that OARC is operating and maintaining, or is it something > that you're acting as a conduit for? The former would be included in my > definition of "rolling your own." Are there seriously no existing > communications platforms anywhere that provide adequate security? > > I ask because OARC is taking on a lot, and from my naive and distant view > seems to have developed a bit of NIH syndrome. Looking at the migration of > dnsviz for example, it's not clear to me why OARC volunteered to take that > project on without adequate resourcing. And subsequently it wasn't clear why > cloud solutions weren't utilized, which I imagine could have been cheaper, > and faster. To my knowledge the historical data is still missing, is that > correct? > > I don't intend this as armchair quarterbacking, I'm looking at it from the > standpoint of whether or not putting resources into OARC is a good > investment. Certainly the people involved, and the intentions of those > people, are top notch. But without good decision making to support those > intentions it's hard to justify contributing additional resources. Of course, > that's just my opinion, and I hope that I'm wrong. > > Doug > > > > On 8/24/20 10:00 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> Doug, >> that’s *exactly* what OARC is doing. It’s not rolling “own” platform, it’s >> using existing platform that many existing teams are using as a >> communication platform. The added requirement for choosing a chat platform >> was a strong data protection. This is something that centralized platform >> (like Slack) can’t offer. Mattermost is a solid competitor on the market and >> I am glad that OARC moved away from Jabber both as a board member and OARC >> member. >> Ondrej >> -- >> Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> (He/Him) >>> On 25. 8. 2020, at 1:43, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.email> wrote: >>> >>> On 8/20/20 1:54 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: >>>> Hello everyone. >>>> DNS OARC is pleased to announce that our new community chat server is open >>>> for access, augmenting the mailing lists we operate. >>>> For many years, OARC has been operating a Jabber service which has been >>>> available to OARC Members. We are replacing that service with a more >>>> modern chat platform using Mattermost. OARC’s chat service is available >>>> for open signup at <https://chat.dns-oarc.net/>. >>> >>> While I think it's great that you're offering this service, I can't help >>> asking why you're rolling your own instead of utilizing any of the many >>> chat services that already exist? Slack comes immediately to mind, but it's >>> far from the only commonly used platform at the moment. >>> >>> Doug >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dns-operations mailing list >>> dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net >>> https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations
