[791] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: IETF questions -- internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri May 31 12:19:09 1991
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 10:45:32 CDT
From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@psi.com
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>I'll bite -- why is it so expensive? I would have thought that the
>cost for maintaining a name registry was mostly fixed -- 2-3 people
>plus a computer. Are they high enough to justify fees like $3500
>from ANSI for X.500 name registration?
Its like buying a grave plot. Take the net present value out to infinity.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO 63132-1806
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