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In <1992Aug31.194310.5101@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. Muirden [GA]) writes:

| The point that I was trying to make wasn't about MX's, it was about
| AARNet. Would AARNet (Geoff etc) accept a single priv.au domain, with
| it's members, however split up coming up with the $1,000, or would they 
| be greedy and want members of domains *below* priv.au (not talking 
| about MX's here at all kre :) ), to come up with $1,000 each.

You still don't understand, as soon as you mention names/domains/mx's
or anything like that in the context of aarnet fees you're off the track.

What I think you want to ask is whether AARNet will allow a group of
otherwise unrelated sites/organisations/people to join together for
the sole purpose of paying a combined fee to aarnet rather than each
paying separately, and if so, under what conditions?

| while the whole domain (ie: priv.au) might become unmanagable
| compared to the gain (to AARNet) of providing it. 

AARNet has nothing to do with providing domains, or the DNS, or
anything else - AARNet (mostly) provides communications capacity
(ie: wires & routers).

The issue of managing the DNS for a site is something for which whoever
is doing it might reasonably charge (uunet does that for example, if
you're not a client of theirs in the usual way, paying for data transfer,
you can still get them to manage your DNS domain, for which they charge
a small annual fee).

| Perhaps it's time Geoff or Peter put in a word here?

Perhaps.

kre