Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Proposal for use of DNS to store RFC 987, etc mappings Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 90 02:40:43 GMT References: <9007271704.AA19586@bel.isi.edu> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 15 pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: > I understand that there are some company networks in the USA that are > RFC compliant but are not connected or visible to the DARPA/NSF > Internet, either because they do not care, or for obsessive security > reasons. For us it's lack of money. It would cost us $29K/year in fees, plus leased line costs, to get onto NEARnet. Since there are only a few groups here in Wang that want Internet connectivity, the per-user cost would be too high. Maybe in a couple of years... --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz