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Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sat Mar 10 13:45:59 2012

From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuostcxXb6yiyRRnPu_EU272hpbKa5Ha-Bq9CJOReoA37ag@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:45:00 -0800
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On Mar 10, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Sure, if you can find a datacenter that's capable of handling all the
> traffic, and has staff who are able to provide efficient remote hands =
for
> huge racks of extremely powerful servers .

Honestly, we haven't even gotten that far when we've offered to deploy =
servers (for instance for domains like .IN) inside India.  The bribes =
that were requested in exchange for giving us permission to deploy a =
free service were, uh, both prohibitive and ludicrous in their enormity.

There are a lot of countries that have far less wealth than India, that =
manage to stand up more interesting infrastructure, because they have =
less friction caused by corruption.

India: USD 3,703 GDP per capita (source: IMF)
Bangladesh: USD 1,697
Tanzania: USD 1,505
Nepal: USD 1,328

                                -Bill




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