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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2012/09/26 04:54 AM, Anupam Agrawal
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<div>Hi Parminder</div>
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<div>I read your article. my observations:</div>
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<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>
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This simplifies matters. With trends in trademark law (colours,
smells and even tastes on the wishlist) and the conflation with web
addresses is perhaps worth being concerned about as it may affect
future use possibilities. Even trade mark law has categories for use
of names in particular sectors like George's steel and George's
coffee... how are these conflicts to be handled if they arise GIVEN
the (intended) trajectory and conflation? Is "private" rule making
what is in the offing? If so (as it seems) then what implications
does this have, are these even being considered?<br>
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<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>
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I think that pure cases of monopoly (as is indicated in the award
process of gTLDs and downstream regulation - or lack thereof) are a
major concern. However the concerns need to be extended to oligopoly
as well - which is a more prevalent form of dominant position than
monopoly - which is capable of falling short of anti-trust
provisions (like IBMMicrosoft "helping" keep Apple afloat so as to
keep focus away from their dominance) thereby delivering the
benefits of oligopoly (supernormal profits for R&D, investors,
reinvestment, etc) as well obviating the need for anti-trust
enforcement (Consumers may suffer)... <br>
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Regards</div>
<div>Anupam Agrawal</div>
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On 25-Sep-2012, at 4:24 PM, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <<a
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<div class="gmail_quote">Dear Parminder,<br>
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I know, and I like your 1-2-3 points. They are both compact
and well stated. Easily quotable.<br>
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Congrats for your op-ed in The Hindu.<br>
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Cheers, Louis.<br>
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:30 PM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
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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
moz-do-not-send="true" 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>
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parminder <br>
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<div>On Tuesday 25 September 2012 03:48 PM, Louis
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at
11:41 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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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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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