Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- 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?)

Cheers,
-- jra
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