[764] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Crosswell)
Wed May 29 18:27:28 1991
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 18:24:56 EDT
From: Alan Crosswell <alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu>
To: "Craig A. Finseth" <fin@unet.unet.umn.edu>
Cc: vcerf@nri.reston.va.us, emv@ox.com, solensky@animal.clearpoint.com,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 29 May 91 09:56:18 -0500
> From: "Craig A. Finseth" <fin@unet.unet.umn.edu>:
> - What's more to the point, however, is that as everyone knows, only
> rich people have the slightest interest in obtaining such identifiers.
> Hence, it will be politically popular to charge excessive fees. (If
> you don't believe me, ask ANSI what they want to register you for
> X.500. Be sure that you are sitting down when you ask.)
OK, I asked:
- Registration fee for both name forms (numeric and alphanumeric) $2,500
- Registration fee for numeric name 1,000
- Registration fee for alphanumeric name (numeric name assigned
previously) 1,500
- Challenge Fee 2,500
- Challenge Loser Fee to be determined
- Register Update Fee 100
- Inquiry Fee (per item) 100
And there's a footnote for GOSIP users that even if you get an ANSI
registration, you are not guaranteed that the GOSIP-gods will honor it!
I'd hate to be the loser of a challenge -- whatever that is....
Sure is a good thing ANSI is a not-for-profit or some commercial
price-gouger might be charging excessive fees:-)
/a
