Re: Repository services and budget

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

On Jan 13,  2:23pm, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Subject: Re: Repository services and budget
>
> >
> >> >You are not going to be able to do this under a million dollars and
> >> >guarantee round the clock service to the internet community. Registrars
> >>
> >>         Please provide a detailed budget and an explanation for the
> >> functions provided by each line item.
>
> 	Yes, it is necessary.  A detailed budget produced a result that was
> 1/2-1/4 the estimate cited here.  If one is going to assert that a budget
> needs to be 2-4 times larger, one should provide the basis for the
> estimate.  In the absence of such detail, the estimate is merely a handwave.
>
Dave,

Your estimate was for a cripled set of linux boxen, and provides little
insentive for those that run the thing for any type of excellance. If
business are going to invest in running a Registry, it had better dam
well work 24 hours a day and 7 daze a week!

Ongoing
===============================================
3 software developers 	80K each/yr	240,000
3 T-1 Connections	12K each/yr	 36,000
1 Manager/Director			120,000
3 Rotateing 24/7
    NOC support ppl	35K each/yr	105,000
Travel					 80,000
Telephone				 35,000
Legal Team				125,000

Startup
==============================================
Routers					 25,000
Database Software			 45,000
PC/Unix workstations    10@5K eack	 50,000
Database Servers 	3@30K each	 90,000
RAID disk Storage 			 30,000
Online Backup.				 30,000

			Sub Total      1,011,000

If you add public key crypto and/or distribute whitepages info add.
RSA/IDEA License			 45,000
3 dispute resolution staff		150,000
2 developers (pgp keyring)		160,000
1 server to publish the keyring		 20,000

			Sub Total	375,000

			Grand Total   1,386,000


The CORE database is to be used by BUSINESSES that are to be providing
COMPETITIVE services against NSI. Why should it not be done as robustly
as possable? Afterall these businesses are betting their livelyhood on the
reliblity of this system.

It does puzzle me as to why the IAHC does not want to discuss the functionality
of the CORE repository, as that functionality defines what and how services
are sold by the registrys that win the lottery.

I run a business and need much more than a gut feeling about the viability of
a domain registry to determin if it is worthwhile to persue submitting a,
yet to be defined, application to run a registry.

I would like to add that if the CORE repository is run at a fixed cost,
then there is no privisions for growth. That is the main reason
NSI started chargeing for domain names in the first place, they couldn't
handle the growth.

If all this is to be determined by the CORE I could only say that for the first
time "on the wire" protocols will be defined by a small closed group and not
by a Working Group process. Is this wize?

-Rick (waiving hand)


-- 
Rick H. Wesson