[governance] implications of private TLDs

[Anupam Agrawal]

Hi Parminder

I read your article. my observations:

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.
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).


Regards
Anupam Agrawal

On 25-Sep-2012, at 4:24 PM, "Louis Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com> wrote:

> Dear Parminder,
> 
> I know, and I like your 1-2-3 points. They are both compact and well stated. Easily quotable.
> 
> Congrats for your op-ed in The Hindu.
> 
> Cheers, Louis.
> - - -
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:30 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> 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> 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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