<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<font face="Verdana"><br>
Dear Louis,<br>
<br>
Whether unfortunate or not, English is a major language in
India... India may therefore be quite interested to prevent
privatisation of English language words which then will be used as
carriers of corporate painted culture into India......<br>
<br>
In the new times, the principal means of global domination -
economic, social and cultural, is threefold<br>
<br>
(1) Exporting culture, (2) (and then) seeking rent over using
alien culture, (3) controlling the digital socio-technical
infrastructure (Internet) as the means of both for exporting
culture and extracting rent, and also as lever of coercive force
employed across the world (as done by US-Microsoft recently in the
3322.org DNS takeover case)<br>
<br>
Therefore private TLD are a part of a much larger problem. <br>
<br>
parminder <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</font>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 25 September 2012 03:48 PM,
Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:CA+EjHYrvwfY9xq86ZZuH2S4nThRoyqXazJL-fe_Q_tARHJ28bw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM,
parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <br>
Today 'The Hindu' carried its own editorial on this issue,
simply titled 'No, ICANN'....<br>
<br>
parminder<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/no-icann/article3932668.ece"
target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/no-icann/article3932668.ece</a>
<br>
<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>- - -<br>
<br>
India's interest for new TLDs is indeed relatively minor, with
regard to her population. Only 21 requests. Some strings tend
to be quite generic: IDN, INDIANS, STAR, STATEBANK. How they
will fare in the ICANN screening process, who knows ?<br>
<br>
IDN is doomed, as it's Indonesia's code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.<br>
<br>
Good luck. Louis.<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>