On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm not sure for example, if 11GER is needed for number registry personnel >>> costs, that could give you 100 hostmasters with 5500EUR/month salary, in >>> good >>> likelihood, we'd be able to run focused number registry with volunteers. >> >> I think your math is off? 11,000,000 / 100 == 110,000 / 12 == 9,166 month >> >> right? Did you mean '200 hostmasters at 5500/month' ? >> >> you'd likely also have to put into the mix the cost of infrastructure, >> right? I'm not sure what current arin/ripe/apnic folk have deployed, I >> imagine some servers (100k of gear? replaced every 3yrs?) and >> routing/switching devices (2M replaced every 3 yrs), and link costs. > > we could nit-pick saku's arithmetic to death, but what would we learn? > it costs money and clue to run a good registry, news at eleven.
sure, my point wasn't really that 'math is wrong', so much as 'running a registry likely costs some cake in gear/bw/admin-time' and that i'm not sure that 11m is off as a number close to the scale of the cost/problem. > i would love to see some folk with enable on the board, such as you. can't other officer from same company already serving, phew! :) (see bullfighter turn stance) > but without the paradigm shift, it would just be pain and torture to no > real avail. and good folk with enable are too busy enabling the > internet as opposed to making careers as wannabe micro-policy wonks. I also agree that 'lots of policy' hasn't really gotten us anywhere :(
