Re: Specific Questions

[Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>]

> 
> 
> Karl Denninger writes:
> > The point Perry is that with the fees being assessed there is no reason
> > for the limit on applicants.
> 
> I'm afraid it is still not reasonable to expect a scaled up operation
> instantly, paying or not. If a million customers came to MCS tomorrow
> morning, you wouldn't even be able to take their calls. 

If they came with $20,000 checks in their hands, and I KNEW they were 
going to come, you can damn well bet I'd have a way to take their calls 
and properly service their needs.  

Its NOT impossible.  You have enough cash flying around to make this work.

> Operations
> systems require time to get into place. There is also the issue of
> making sure the initial group is small enough to be able to work out
> the technical kinks and get the whole thing solidly functioning. There
> are startup issues to deal with, and the desire is to be conservative
> about how things are handled initially, with the thing liberalizing
> with time.
> 
> In a year or two, yes, everything will be in place and there will be
> no need to restrict things, but thats probably the point at which it
> everything opens to all comers anyway.
> 
> Perry

Then why hasn't the IAHC committed to this in their draft? 

It doesn't take a year or two either Perry.  If you think it does, find an
organization that can handle this and contract it out. There have to be a
few hundred of them in the US alone.

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