Computer networking geeks use that the seven-layer stack, to specify and to analyze matters running from what a given voltage level means at the bottom (Physical layer), to how a email client retrieves email from a mailstore at the top (Application layer).
In preparing this piece, I find see reference some to mnemonic forms to get the sequence of the Layers correct that I did not know before:
The mnemonics "People Design Networks To Send Packets Accurately", "Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away", and "All People Seem To Need Data Processing" may help you remember the layers.
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Some wags extend the definition thus:
Of course, above those seven layers are two more: the Financial, and the Political Layers, which also need to be functional.
The dis-functionality and friction of office politics, or perhaps of being unable to get funding needed for a more reliable and functional network infrastructure rather than a Bigger, Newer, Better computer to sit unused on a pointy headed boss' desk, each come to mind as obvious examples. In wider scopes, Financial may encompass Economics and Markets; Political expands to social interaction, policy and polity
It seems in at least one restatement, to also have added an explicit 'religious' layer as well under some restatements. I think one can perhaps subsume Religious into Political, but I can see the genesis of the historical tension to draw a difference between those asserting dominion over a person's earthly presence, and spiritual corpus.
Network technicians will sometimes refer euphemistically to "layer-eight problems," meaning problems with an end user and not with the network.
Carl Malamud, in his book [1991] book"Stacks," defines layers 8, 9, and 10 as "Money", "Politics", and "Religion". The "Religion layer" is used to describe non-rational behavior and/or decision-making that cannot be accounted for within the lower nine levels. (For example, a manager who insists on migrating all systems to a Microsoft platform "because everyone else is doing it" is said to be operating in Layer 10.)
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I see also that people have adapted use of [pdf] the Political and Finacial Layers. No model is so good it cannot be twisted, abused and extended, it seems
Anyway, I lay this foundation to provide a kick-off target to point back to in future discussions of the Political and Financial layers of the stack
