A view from New Delhi. Original to the Asiasource mailing list. Fwded
with the author's permission.
my $0.02 on the subject of Internet governance, your contribution
solicited at
http://www.india-gii.org/wiki/index.php/Presentations/WSIS
Arun
Unpacking Internet Governance -- And Finding Red
As a follow-up to the earlier note posted re: India's presentation at
the recent WIPO meetings and ss a sign of the speed and force with which
IP issues are emerging as an ideological fault-line in the development
policy please see the attached.
MG
Businessworld India
The patent flip-flops
This is perhaps the most naive part of the otherwise very naive article:
Foremost among them, is the whole discussion of domain names, and who
should control them. Internet traffic is routed using IP addresses,
similar to phone numbers on the telecom network. People came up with the
clever
I know many on this list will be aware of the various technical and factual
inaccuracies in Mehta's piece (WiFi vs Bluetooth? a new one on me), even
outside of the techno-determinist rhetoric and unhelpful equation of
governance==government. Two alternative sources below that I think give a
