Will the ccTLDs have to pay to be part of the ORSC ?

I cna't speak for ORSC ...

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"Fay Howard, RIPE CENTR Project Manager" ... "However, ccTLD registries operate under local jurisdiction and receive quite limited services from the IANA --maintenance of their TLD in the root server-- , but do realize they will have to pay something towards the new IANA."

But I can assure you that at this time there is no fee to TLD operators for entry into an IRSC member. There may be a requirement in the future to contribute, by TLD operators who charge a fee, to the IRSC for cost recovery of Root Server Operational costs (that is bandwidth and hardware, it is unlikely that Administration will be covered.) Of course any such fee on the basis that EVERYONE actually helps operations along, will be quite minimal, but it should not be left to the Root Server Operators who volunteer their time, bandwidth and costs to allow other people to make profit fromsale of a product that otherwise wouldn't exist. The IRSC will present a quarterly costs report to the Names Council over the next 12 months to determin if cost recovery is really an issue. I can speak for AURSC in that cost recovery at this time (over 1.8 million requests a day to each server) would amount to round $75 a month per server. Thats only AU$2,700 a year and based on that, if all TLD holders chiped in $1 from their (more often) $50 annual fee for just TWELVE Sub Domain Names, the cost certainly becomes minimal. Or in fact paid a straight fee based on the the $2,700/TLDs it would become very inexpensive and almost impossible to trasnact the amount. At this time I can't speak for other IRSC members as I'm unaware of their operational costs and most probably don't know either. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Todd http://adamtodd.ah.net Business Development, Technology, Domain Registration and Network Advisory Phone +61 2 9729 0565 - Todd Corporation http://www.todd.inoz.com Fax +61 2 4659 6786 - AHNET http://www.ah.net - AURSC http://www.aursc.ah.net Telstra Reseller and Telstra Convey Member (Not an Employee of Telstra) Get the DOMAIN NAME HANDBOOK NOW http://www.domainhandbook.com -------- Logged at Tue Sep 8 20:02:58 MET DST 1998 ---------