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

[Fouad Bajwa]

Alright, so the Indian ICT Minister made a misinformed information blunder
on the root servers and Internet connectivity issue to ascertain his
country's standpoint but how do you help him out?

Maybe our CS and technical community members from India can get in touch
with him or do OpEds in the same newspapers that published the story? I see
we waste a lot of time ranting instead of countering issues or finding
implementable solutions. Why don't our knowledgeable members like Roland,
John and your kindself  write a brief that clarifies how the root server
network works and where are they located and we transmit that through
IT4Change and CIS Center for Internet and society to the Ministry. Be part
of a solution!

Fouad Bajwa
On Aug 2, 2012 4:32 PM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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