[governance] India to push for freeing Internet from U.S. control

[Pranesh Prakash]

The quote from the internal note that the report refers to shows that
the folks who have written it do not understand what the Internet's root
servers actually do, what "data of all domain names originating in
India" means, nor what locally storing all "traffic originating/landing"
in India implies, and points to a number of other misunderstandings.
They want to change things, but show clearly that they don't understand
how things are currently run.

For instance, if all "traffic landing in India" should be "stored in
India", that would mean that all content requested by people in India
should be physically serve from Indian servers, i.e., an entire copy of
the Internet must be made in India.

Also, some of those quotes clearly show that the attempt is not a move
away from US control, but an attempt to gain greater say for governments
in ICANN's functioning.

-- 
Pranesh Prakash
Policy Director
Centre for Internet and Society
T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org
PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: @pranesh_prakash
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Access to Knowledge Fellow
Information Society Project, Yale Law School
T: +1 520 314 7147 | W: http://yaleisp.org

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