Re: 60 day waiting period

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 4:25 PM -0500 1/13/97, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:

How much due diligence is involved? Does ANSI conduct searches?

> 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
>

Regards,

Simon

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