Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel attended the 3rd International Barcode of Life Conference [https://www.dnabarcodes2009.org/] 7-13 November in Mexico City and were astonished and thrilled by the progress of the field since the March 2003 Banbury conference on DNA taxonomy that we catalyzed.  The conference press release summarizes vividly the progress, as does an article in the London Daily Telegraph. Mark presented our new work with Larry Sirovich and Ken Zhang on application of indicator vectors to barcode data sets.