At 06:53 PM 10/19/2006, Thomas Leavitt wrote: Hi Thomas! [ snip ]
... finally, why go through all this hassle for what has to be an utterly trivial amount of money resulting from people being presented with something totally unexpected and clicking on a link therein... how valuable are these people as customers? I can't imagine much...
a) is there enough revenue here to consider?
This isn't something that's so easy to determine, but golog and others must have a financial model in order to be pursuing it. Here's a visionary article related to this topic, but at the root server level, even more of a delicate issue, but with the same principles as the one we're discussing: http://www.circleid.com/posts/techies_wanna_do_policy/ And this article shows the convenience of falling back on standards when they serve your purpose: http://www.circleid.com/posts/paul_vixie_on_fort_nocs/ YMMV: Best Regards, Martin -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations hannigan@renesys.com