[kiidev]

What about?

> 5. Premium and wholesale services: Provide opt-in paid premium services for enhanced security (e.g. ad hoc filtering, monitoring, 24x7 support), tailored to specific sectorial needs (e.g. cloud, finance, health, transport), as well as wholesale resolution services for other digital service providers, including ISPs and cloud service providers.

[salzig]

5. and 12. are really concerning. IMHO the EU should invest in a DNS Infrastructure that is resilient to censoring (copyright or political) and operate it as non profit.

Edit: to be clear, non profit doesn't mean it can't charge money, profit shouldn't be a concern/target.

[emteycz]

Are we talking about the same EU? The EU does this for censoring and monitoring, not against it - and they're totally open about it too. Google "Zensursula"...

[wongarsu]

I would expect quite a lot of resistance to monitoring efforts, even if they are paid opt-ins (which will mostly be used by schools and employers, the same way they already use similar services that do the same).

Censoring of illegal content is much less controversial, and already happening to various degrees at the ISP provided DNS servers. You can make good arguments for transparency and oversight by the courts, but that's as far as it usually goes. Hard to argue that illegal things should be publicly accessible.

[5736uhhdohr]

It's not at all hard to argue that illegal things should be publicly accessible. I find it impossible to argue that governments should be able to decide what information is publicly accessible. There is no relationship between legality and morality.

[salzig]

Then the EU shouldn't invest any money. Cause if you can't improve the situation, stop wasting money on it.

[toyg]

From the perspective of public accountability, this is a step forward compared to the current status quo - where some countries implement blacklists and some don't, some are accountable and some aren't, etc etc. The EU dns would then work as public registry of such activities, also clarifying and harmonising the bar for acceptable censorship (i.e. opposition activity in Hungary? Not bannable...).

[toyg]

I don't see a problem with some commercial element in public services, as long as it's reasonable and transparent. As long as the public mission is still satisfied, it's just a good way to reduce reliance on general taxation.

The amount of such services you can provide for DNS is quite limited anyway. Maybe you can guarantee higher QoS on response times where this is critical, but that's about it. Maybe they can make non-EU-based businesses pay to use it.