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

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:36:28AM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> None of those contracts require the upfront capital investment that
> running a registry requires.

In fact, when you costed out this you made the assumption that the
entire thing was being done from scratch.  For a service bureau (or
even a large ISP) that was bidding on this, that would not be the
case -- the capital investment would be relatively minor.  They would
already have the 24x7 data center, the staff, the expertise, the
hotline, and all of the infrastructure necessary, and operating a
registry would simply be a new income center to help defray their
already capitalized infrastructure.  There are literally thousands of
companies worldwide that could bid on such an operation.  The
development of registry software (though likely not necessary) could
be bid on a separate basis. 

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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
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