Re: Repository services and budget

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Kent,


Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> Dave Crocker allegedly said:
> >
> > At 9:04 AM -0800 1/4/97, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >       I'd guess that 60-$100K would suffice.  What do other folks think
> > about this?
> 
> The registry software I have implemented doesn't require a database
> at all, and is relatively resilient to failure -- complete
> obliteration of the machine and all its stored state just requires
> waiting a defined short period for pending "live" DNS update
> certificates to be exercised before bringing a new machine online.
> 
> In this model, the performance issue isn't redundancy and
> ultra-reliability -- it's the computational cost of doing public key
> operations.  These operations are O(frequency of domain creation) --
> for a registry creating under a thousand domains a day a high end
> pentium machine should be more than adequate.  Something that could
> run in a closet at ISI.

  I suppose you have taken into account Hardware maint. and drive
failures
as well?  How do you perpose to handle that with one machine?  Or is the
that registry just down for that period of time?  And is the domains
on a spicific drive not avalible when a drive goes bad?
> 
> > >Is a secretary necessary?  There will be much admin work that needs to be
> > >done so I would assume so.
> >
> >       Remember this this is a back-end organization.  It's "customers"
> > are the member registrars.  Initially, that is a very small number.  After
> > two years, it's still only around 40-50.  My guess is that technical
> > support staff are going to be more important than a purely
> > adminitrative/receptionis kind of person.
> 
> The workload is probably more a function of the number of domains
> being created than the number of registrars, and it will probably be
> rather sporadic, with maybe some spikes -- for example, if a registrar
> goes belly-up there may be some work moving customers around.  But
> most operations should be automatic.  Except for the spikes, I hope
> it will be a part-time effort for one person.

  You could reache a goal of possibly two part time people, but I find
it managerily problamatic for one person part time.  Maximizing
automation
can and should be a goal, but possibly never acctualy achieved.  You
could
easly automate moving customers to a diffrent registry if there was a 
alternate assinged for each.  That would be no problem.
> 
> --
> Kent Crispin                            "No reason to get excited",
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Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. 
Phone :972-447-1878
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com