[83822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: {f,i,k}.root-servers.net anycast instances deployed in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Aug 26 12:04:12 2005
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:32:20 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a050826072847f5a57b@mail.gmail.com>
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thanks
the minister's parents, or the clerk who filled in his birth
certificate made a mistake .. i do think his surname is actually
"moron" and not "maran"
srs
On 26/08/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... at three NIXI (www.nixi.org - the indian IXP) POPs - Delhi, Bombay
> and Madras.
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> About time too.
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> There's a fourth metro in India - Calcutta, which is the capital of a
> state that has one of two democratically elected communist governments
> in the world, by the way - the other being the Indian state of Kerala.
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> [and the party in power in Calcutta is also part of the ruling
> coalition in the Indian government].
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> Now for comments in that admirable institution, the Indian press.
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> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms
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> Two things -
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> > The move will help bring down the cost of accessing Internet in
> > India, where the clone root servers have been set up in Delhi, Mumbai
> > and Chennai. "Normally, other countries get to host only two such
> > services, but we fought hard and got three," said communications and
> > IT minister Dayanidhi Maran.
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> Maran seems to think this is as big an achievement as a kid throwing a
> tantrum to get three chocolate bars instead of two, which it is not ..
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> and, from a post on another mailing list that I read -
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> > Mr. Paul Wilson, Director General APNIC and Mr. Axel Pawlik, Managing
> > Director - RIPE will be in Delhi between 25-26 August 2005 in connectio=
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> > with Integration of Internet Root Servers in India.
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> Ah. Calcutta left out of the race, and those dreaded foreign
> imperialist powers are behind it all.
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> I confidently expect our friendly comrades in Calcutta will feel duty
> bound to call for a general strike (something they were proverbial for
> doing at the drop of a hat, till quite recently ...)
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> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
