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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Yes. From "the usual suspects" too - MHA / the security agencies. Which
don't generally have representation in ICANN's GAC, or the ITU - but
elsewhere. It will be interesting to see where and how this plays out.

Especially if there's a government change in a few months from now ..

Pranesh Prakash [10/12/13 18:48 -0500]:
>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
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>Information Society Project, Yale Law School
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