Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Conrad" <drc () virtualized org>
>
> > 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.