gee bill, accusing AVI of muck raking? must have been confusing him with me.... i think his question is very relevant...... how bout phrasing it differently? if ameritech, pac bell, mfs, or sprint were initially clueless (greedy?) enough to ask for $60,000 a month I can see why you might like to decline to embarrass the offender.... - *IF* such entity has become more reasonable in the meantime. so let me rephrase avi's question: what is the RA paying each NAP owner now?? this should be publicly disclosable since it is paying with federal funds. Right? seems to me the important question is whether anyone is out of line NOW. ********************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 phone and fax Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new report: "Tracking Internet Infrastructure" *********************************************************************** On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
Just as a datapoint, one of them had set inital pricing at $60,000.00 per MONTH per connection. They have been talked down from that number, but it still would eat that paltry 10M award in much less than 5 years.
--bill
Which one?
Muckracking? Is this really germain to the topic? I don't think so.
--bill
Well, I'm sure it's of interest to the NANOG community - and is germane to the topic of RA placement (if a NAP operator is trying to block placement of RA machines).
Anyway, it's not a critical request-for-information, I was just curious.
Avi