[142098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jun 17 22:12:39 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <15662374.650.1308361113003.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:06:12 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>
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>> 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,
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>> Eric's writing style does take a bit of getting used to, but I =
usually
>> find it enlightening (albeit occasionally in an existential way) :-).
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> Nicely put.
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>>> and buried in a thread I'd long since stopped paying attention to by
>>> that point;
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>> It was the third message in the thread.
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> Yeah, I stopped after the first one.=20
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>>> my apologies to you for not having seen it, since you seem to feel
>>> that's material.
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>> 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?).
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> I enter layers 8 and 9 only at gunpoint. (It's people, and money,=20
> ascending, right?)
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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.
