occasional theme of talk chick flick before sunrise's "the space in between" system and network administrators are the ultimate 'space in between' (two user nodes) exalted sense of that phrase often the only intelligent glue holding two users together we oversignificate protons and neutrons too, maybe because we understand them better than we understand the space in between critically important but underrepresented in policy, protocol, architectural areas confession: if this talk comes across as a call to arms, i can live with that.