On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Conrad" <[email protected]> > >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic >>> on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language, >> >> Eric's writing style does take a bit of getting used to, but I usually >> find it enlightening (albeit occasionally in an existential way) :-). > > Nicely put. > >>> and buried in a thread I'd long since stopped paying attention to by >>> that point; >> >> It was the third message in the thread. > > Yeah, I stopped after the first one. > >>> my apologies to you for not having seen it, since you seem to feel >>> that's material. >> >> No need to apologize. As I said, I've been in layer 9 too long so I >> figured the whole .brand thing was common knowledge. Sounds like ICANN >> should have a liaison to the NANOG world (perhaps the ARIN region ASO >> AC members can't do that?). > > I enter layers 8 and 9 only at gunpoint. (It's people, and money, > ascending, right?) >
I believe 8-10 are financial, political, religious (ascending), but, I suspect that the layer ordering at those levels may be organization and/or astronomical-phenomenon[1] dependent. Owen [1] May vary based on e.g. phase of the moon, time of day, etc.
