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

[McTim]

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
> Well, I read this a bit differently (although I would have to read the
> entire declaration to be sure). For one, ministers in most democracies
> are not occupying their posts because they have doctoral degrees on the
> issues of their ministries -- they are basically proeminent politicians
> of the governing coalition with some knowledge of the issues (in rare
> cases, qualified professionals on the issues), and ministries are
> basically run by their high level staff.
>
> Secondly, my impression is that he wished to stress the fact that most
> traffic depends in one way of another on backbones which interconnect
> via developed countries (particularly the USA) and he is not wrong in
> this case in defending alternative ways to interconnect Southern
> countries

but he didn't do that:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-30/edit-page/32924041_1_internet-governance-internet-corporation-root-servers



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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