RE: [wg-c] straw vote -- question one results & call for votes on

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

None of those contracts require the upfront capital investment that
running a registry requires.

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> Behalf Of Kent
> Crispin
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> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:15:41AM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > > I do
> > > believe that the tender should be re-bid on a periodic period
> > > (much like
> > > what should happen with com/net/org which was a 5 year
> > > contract, despite
> > > NSI claiming the contrary).
> >
> > I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. There ain't
> nobody that's
> > going to run a business with a five-year guaranteed out-of-business
> > limit.
>
> This happens *all the time*.  The management of the food services
> contract at LLNL is rebid every 5 years.  The management of the
> National Labs is rebid every 5 years -- Sandia, across the street, is
> run by Lockheed-Martin; Livermore and Los Alamos are run by UC.  All
> the myriad of services that can be outsourced, including payroll,
> janitorial, protective service, etc, commonly rebid on a periodic
> basis.  Computer services are done this way -- the management of NAS,
> the NASA super computer facility, is rebid every few years.  Computer
> Sciences Corporation has as its core business managing computer
> centers.  Dunn&Bradstreet was interested in running the CORE
> registry, but their bid was too high.  This is one of the things that
> makes outsourcing so popular these days...and it makes the service
> industries highly competitive.  Precisely what we want in the
> registry business -- far more effective competition than giving
> perpetual small monopolies to people...
>
>  > I certainly wouldn't trust the outfit that was stupid enough to
> > do it and no VC group would be dumb enough to trust them
> with the real
> > CASH it takes to start a registry.
>
> You know, Roeland, my wife actually works for a small venture capital
> firm...it's entertaining to listen to your views on them.
>
> --
> Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>