[governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

[Sivasubramanian M]

The root server infrastructure, despite its harmless functions, occupy a
recurrent space in Internet Governance debates, their functions understood,
or otherwise, for its symbolic value.

I have always wondered if it wouldn't be wiser for United States to make a
gesture of assurance to the rest of the world by exploring the technical
feasibility of locating a few more elsewhere. The Wikipedia article on Root
Name Server says that "The choice of 13 nameservers was made because of
limitations in the original DNS specification" with a 'why?' asking for
citation. Assuming that there is a limitation, could there be other
possible gesturegs?  Fully Qualified Mirrors?  Or, could there be an
extraordinary gesture of one of the Universities retaining a Fully
Connected Mirror in their premises and relocate the Root Server to an
Institution such as the Indian Institute of Technology with transition
support for 3 to 5 years?  Or, would Verisign Inc do the same to make this
extraordinary gesture by shifting the root server to Verisign India or
Verisign Africa? The relocated servers would be under the present root
server infrastructure any way.

It may not be easy, it could be technically complex, and possibly
expensive. Even a pretension to add / relocate one or two servers would lay
to rest most of the criticism about the unilateral control of the root,
read (conveniently by those who archestrate anti-Internet propaganda),
unilateral control of the Internet.

Sent from Turiya MID
http://turiya.mobi
On Aug 2, 2012 9:17 PM, "Sivasubramanian M" <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear Alejandro,
>
> Many of these 'misunderstandings' indicate that our policy makers, as
> also, those in many other countries are misled by anti-Internet lobby
> groups, in this case this misunderstanding is a reflection of what has been
> fed by "Advisors" who haven't worried about the blatant inaccuracy of the
> misinformation planted at the ministerial level.
>
> The situation you have described about the Kenya IGF where the IBSA
> proposal caused discomfort, is another example of wrong advice and strong
> influences at junior level which sometimes causes people of higher
> administrative and/or ministerial responsibility to be criticized. In this
> Kenya and some other instances, it could have been a situation of a
> lobbyist with an NGO facade earning enough trust to prepare a whole draft
> in the name of the country. Such situations would indeed change with
> learned and responsible good people within the administration paying
> attention to the inner dynamics and paying attention to every word that
> gets published / spoken in the name of the country.
>
> Unfortunately, what has so far surfaced in the name of India does not
> truly reflect the Indian mind, which is far more sensible and evolved.
>
> I would strongly agree with an earlier comment on this thread that the
> Internet Community has not done enough to disseminate fundamental
> information on the workings of something as new as the Internet on which
> not many policy makers could be expected to be experts without a focussed
> program.  While this need is left unfilled by the Internet Community,
> negative forces are busy with plenty of misinformation by proximity.
>
> Sent from Turiya MID
> http://turiya.mobi
> On Aug 2, 2012 11:03 AM, "Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch" <apisan at unam.mx>
> wrote:
>
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