Re: A question about protocol

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 01:41 PM 12/24/96 +0000, Jeff Williams wrote:
>> Here, however, I agree with you.  The lottery is clearly only a
>> bootstrap, and the complaints against it are obviously self-serving.
>
>  That is an arrogant attitude!  Self serving.  How do you arrive at
>that conclusion.  In the current Dec 19th perposal, Lottery perposal
>is predicated by the $20k Fee, that is what makes it a bad idea. Not
>to mention the fee itself is way to high!!  Many on this list have
>objected to both of these parts of the IECH draft.  No consensus here!

For who is the $20K fee too high?  For a one man consultant shop?  For a 20
person hi-tech startup?  For a 2,000 person company?  Last month, IBM Israel
installed $9K of hardware (router, t/s, modems) in the bedroom of an 18 year
old who wants to be an ISP in his neighborhood. 

Any company that wins the lottery will need a secretary, bookkeeper, legal
counsel, 1-2 Unix sysadmins, 2-3 intelligent data entry people and about
$50K of equipment, and about 4Mb of Internet connectivity just to get
started and
be a registry.  I fail to see how $20K will be the factor that causes the above
fictious company to back out and say "too expensive".  Throw in rent,
electricity, insurance, phone costs, etc. and you are well above $250K/yr in
initial running costs.

>-- 
>Jeffrey A. Williams
>DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
>Information Eng. Group. 
>Phone :972-447-1878
>E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com
>
>
Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
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