Re: [wg-c] breaking up (names) is hard to do

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 11:37 AM 8/26/99 , A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>At 02:29 PM 8/26/99 , Christopher Ambler wrote:
>> > Since the registry operations cost for domain name registration should be
>> > US$ 0.25-0.50 (if not lower) and that leads to a rather lower price than
>>we
>> > currently suffer with.
>>No, it shouldn't. They gold plate their bathroom handles, so it should be
>>$8 per domain name. And neither your nor I should tell them otherwise,
>>it's not our business.
>
>Except if you're in love with highly regulated common carrier
>models.  Ironically, even then, neither the FCC CCB nor
>the State PUCs ever got to that level of detail.

That's quite odd.  I thought they were HIGHLY involved in letting the 
contract for 800-number assignment management for North America.  Since 
that activity is so close to the one under discussion, here, we should pay 
some attention to established practise.

d/

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