----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Conrad" <d...@virtualized.org>
> "Finally, because pancakes are calling, the very complainants of > squatting and defensive registration (the 1Q million-in-revenue every > applicant for an "open", now "standard" registry places in its > bizplan), the Intellectual Property Stakeholder Group is also an > advocate for trademark TLDs, arguing that possession of $fee and a > registry platform contract (there is now a niche industry of boutique > ".brand" operators-in-waiting) and a $bond establishes an absolute > right to a label in the IANA root. > > So, rather than memorizing the digits of Pi, for some later public > recitation, one could start reciting brand names, for some later > public recitation, for as long as there is a single unified root." > > See http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034692.html > for full context. That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language, and buried in a thread I'd long since stopped paying attention to by that point; my apologies to you for not having seen it, since you seem to feel that's material. Cheers, -- jr 'I wouldn't call it a datapoint, though' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
