AOP Notification

At 4:11 PM -0800 2/2/97, Michael Dillon wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Kim Hubbard wrote:
>
>> > It depends on what the up-front costs are. Do you refer to a portion of
>> > your salary, the website, the mailing list, some postage costs, some legal
>> > fees, some phone calls? All of these are certainly essential to creating
>> > ARIN but they don't amount to a lot of money and could be handled as a
>> > loan to be repaid by ARIN.
>> >
>> > Or is there something else?
>>
>> Oh, one or two additional items.  Such as connectivity, equipment,
>> office space, additional staff (sorry I can't run ARIN alone),
>> phone system, etc.
>
>Why can't this stuff wait until ARIN is incorporated and the members hand
>over their checks?
>

Not sure what you are asking.  Without knowing what the costs are,
including these mundane ones, how would people know for what amounts the
check should be written?  The fees still seem arbitrary numbers -- might be
reasonable, might not be -- I don't have information to judge.