<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi Parminder</div><div><br></div><div>I read your article. my observations:</div><div><br></div><div>1.The scare quotient is quite high and for a moment if i agree with what have you said then the road ahead is missing. If the purpose of the article was to scare only, then it's fine.</div><div>2. Every business in the world lands itself into a monopolistic situation if they have taken the lead into it. Going by that even the first printing press would have been in similar situation for some time. That's the motivation for any organisation to invest in innovation knowing that competition will catch up. Monopolistic scare is fine but I have not seen private sector monopoly lasting long enough. (State monopoly lasts longer but recent trends are also examples that they are not for ever).</div><div><br></div><div><br>Regards</div><div>Anupam Agrawal</div><div><br>On 25-Sep-2012, at 4:24 PM, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <<a href="mailto:pouzin@well.com">pouzin@well.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote">Dear Parminder,<br><br>I know, and I like your 1-2-3 points. They are both compact and well stated. Easily quotable.<br><br>Congrats for your op-ed in The Hindu.<br><br>Cheers, Louis.<br>- - -<br><br>
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:30 PM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a 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">
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Dear Louis,<br>
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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>
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In the new times, the principal means of global domination -
economic, social and cultural, is threefold<br>
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(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
<a href="http://3322.org" target="_blank">3322.org</a> DNS takeover case)<br>
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Therefore private TLD are a part of a much larger problem. <br><span><font color="#888888">
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parminder <br>
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<div>On Tuesday 25 September 2012 03:48 PM,
Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM,
parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span>
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Today 'The Hindu' carried its own editorial on this issue,
simply titled 'No, ICANN'....<br>
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parminder<br>
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<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/no-icann/article3932668.ece" target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/no-icann/article3932668.ece</a>
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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>
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IDN is doomed, as it's Indonesia's code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.<br>
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Good luck. Louis.<br>
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