[governance] implications of private TLDs

[parminder]

Dear Louis,

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......

In the new times, the principal means of global domination - economic, 
social and cultural, is threefold

(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 3322.org DNS takeover case)

Therefore private TLD are a part of a much larger problem.

parminder



On Tuesday 25 September 2012 03:48 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Today 'The Hindu' carried its own editorial on this issue, simply
>     titled 'No, ICANN'....
>
>      parminder
>
>     http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/no-icann/article3932668.ece
>
> - - -
>
> 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 ?
>
> IDN is doomed, as it's Indonesia's code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.
>
> Good luck. Louis.
>

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