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

[Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch]

Adam,

what was the phrase? a painfully misinformed... reason to keep these people's hands off the Internet?

What surprises me most, again and again, is supposedly knowledgeable civil society organizations who bow to them. Please someone tell us if there has been any protest in India by Internet-governance related experts. It may have been discreet, polite, subdued, away from our line of sight...

How much can something  like this be averted, at least looking to the long term, with capacity building at the IGF? 

Have the potential allies in the original IBSA and successors at least clenched their teeth given the reputation damage their proposals suffer at the hands of statements like this? 

Should we decry this now and save this person and associated institutions of the public shame his predecessor at last year's IGF put herself in the unenviable position to suffer? What does enlightened civil-society etiquette recommend?

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

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Desde: apeake at gmail.com [apeake at gmail.com] en nombre de Adam Peake [ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
Enviado el: jueves, 02 de agosto de 2012 00:19
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Asunto: [governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120729_globally_internet_traffic_passes_through_13_root_servers/#.UBoL2jEe7hU>
"Globally, Internet Traffic Passes Through 13 Root Servers" (!)


Question: Who governs the internet at present?

Sachin Pilot, minister of state for communications and information technology:

"Globally, internet traffic passes through 13 root servers. Nine of
them are in the US, two each in Japan and Western Europe. These
servers move the information. I believe India and other countries
ought to play a much more relevant role in managing traffic flows. The
internet is a global resource whose governance can't be limited to a
particular geography."

(Times of India, interview
<http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-30/edit-page/32924041_1_internet-governance-internet-corporation-root-servers>)

Excellent, we're back in 2002/3.

Adam


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