Re: 60 day waiting period

["Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>]

The wait to register an alpha equivlaent to an ISO Object Identifier with 
the American National Standards Institute is at least 90 days and costs 
$1,500.

Donald

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:03:59 -0500
> From: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>
> To: Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>
> Cc: fin@finseth.com, barter@ntplx.net, iahc-discuss@iahc.org
> Subject: Re: 60 day waiting period
> 
> Carl Oppedahl wrote:
> > 
> > At 08:45 AM 01/13/97 -0600, Craig A. Finseth wrote:
> > 
> > >As I have read more postings to this list, I see the 60 day waiting
> > >period as more and more of a problem.
> > >
> > >First, to a startup, 60 days is _forever_.  Imagine getting everything
> > >ready, yet having to sit around and twiddle thumbs WHILE SPENDING
> > >MONEY AT A FURIOUS PACE.  Remember, this hold affects EVERYTHING these
> > >days: not only product, but magazine ads, business cards, letterhead, etc.
> > 
> > Keep in mind that all one must do is the simple step of sending in the
> > application 60 days in advance of need.  How difficult is that?
> 
> Please name something analguous that makes use of a 60 day wait period. 
> At least then I could have some basis for comparison that this might be
> a reasonable thing.
> 
> Vince Wolodkin
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