Re: Anti Capitalism?

["Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>]

On Dec 31,  3:11pm, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Subject: Re: Anti Capitalism?
>
> Karl Denninger writes:
> > Without competiton in the repository function we're just moving the NSI
> > monopoly one step higher in the food chain, and making it even more
> > powerful.
>
> There is a difference between a $200,000 contract and one that brings
> in hundreds of millions in a year. The back end repository is trivial
> -- its the management of a couple of database machines and nothing
> more. The contract is also going to be awarded collectively by the
> users of the service (that is, the registrars) so it is likely that
> some control will be exercised to assure that the cost is as low as
> possible.

I would talk to NSI about how much effort their "back end database"
requires. I believe NSI has about 36 engineers that work on/with their
database. NSI has about 2 million objects that they must maintain and
manage for about 800K domains. It is not a trival project. Would
the back end repository not also be responsible for generating the
DNS db files and also running a whois service not to mention publishing
all the requests for domains?

I don't think we are talking about 3 linux boxes here ;-)


-Rick

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Rick H. Wesson