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Subject: Re: ADDENDUM: Brief report on Firewalls BoF from Networld+Interop, Las Vegas
From: jgt10 @ amdahl . com (John G. Thompson)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 07:44:29 -0800 (PST)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <9503301442 . AA19837 @ tis . com> from "Frederick M Avolio" at Mar 30, 95 09:41:54 am

> 	- $50 -- $60 is not really a lot of money per person. Yes, for
> 	  1000 people it is a large chunk of change, but it is an 
> 	  insignificant percentage of any individual's base cost to a
> 	  company (including salary, benefits, admin support, phone
> 	  support, hardware, stationery, etc.). The cost of a token
> 	  is about the same as 2 boxes of transparencies.  So, it is
> 	  not really a money issues; it is an organizational issue. 
> 	  It is a new budget item and the problem is finding a spot for
> 	  it on a cost center's budget.

The inital cost is not very high , true.  But the cost to maintain 
a token system can become problmeatic.  What is the cost (per token
or per 1000) to setup, initialize, ship, audit, recieved returned 
tokens, refurbish, reprogram, reship, etc. a token system?

JGT
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