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Re: the names that aren't DNS names problem, was Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt>

2015-07-23 23:19:47
On 7/24/2015 5:40 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
It would be interesting to try to estimate the cost of
participants of developing an IETF Proposed Standard and then to
compare that to various estimates of the cost to develop and
submit a TLD application.


Many years ago, I did a back of the envelope calculation for the
aggregate cost of an easy and quick IETF standards effort and landed on
US$ 1M.

I'm sure it is a multiple of that now and that the larger efforts run
into aggregate costs that are 10 times as high.

Engineers are expensive. A group of many engineers is quite a bit more
expensive.  Engineers over many months are...


d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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