Re: Tired of Waiting

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard@sexton.com>]

At 11:00 AM 7/14/98 -0700, stef@nma.com wrote:
>Be very careful about "perpetual care" pricing.  ANSI adpted it for X.400
>ADMD and X.500 Distinguished Names, and came to a price od $2000.
>
>The problem is that perpetual care requires that the initial (only) fee
>must b large enough to endow care and feeding of the administrative
>requirements for ever, hence the fee must yield a large enough capital
>investment to provide for perpetual care.
>
>I call this "Cemetary Plot Economics"...  
>I think you do not really want to go there.
>
>A reasonable contractual guarantee of price levels should suffice.

Can we write a big DNS LOCK IN FAQ somewhere and put this as the
answer THAT question?

After hashing it out for 4 years and all...


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