[openstack-dev] Moniker renamed to Designate, and applies for Incubation.

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Mon Jun 10 12:39:58 UTC 2013


On 06/09/2013 05:01 PM, Mac Innes, Kiall wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> First up - Moniker has been renamed to Designate. This was a precautionary measure to avoid potential legal issues..
> 
> Next, and most importantly :) After more emails and conversations than I can count asking when we would do this, Designate is applying for incubation[1].
> 
> For those who don't know Designate, we provide a "DNSaaS" integrated with OpenStack and following OpenStack conventions. We're also the software behind HP Cloud DNS[2].
> 
> Please feel free to bombard us with questions :)

Why is this a separate project from OpenStack Networking?

What makes some services appropriate for OpenStack Networking (Load
Balancing, VPN), but not others (in this case, DNS)?

-- 
Russell Bryant



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