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.
About time too.
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.
[and the party in power in Calcutta is also part of the ruling coalition in the Indian government].
Now for comments in that admirable institution, the Indian press.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1211092.cms
Two things -
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.
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 ..
and, from a post on another mailing list that I read -
Mr. Paul Wilson, Director General APNIC and Mr. Axel Pawlik, Managing Director - RIPE will be in Delhi between 25-26 August 2005 in connection with Integration of Internet Root Servers in India.
Ah. Calcutta left out of the race, and those dreaded foreign imperialist powers are behind it all.
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 ...)
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)