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... 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 ([email protected])
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