{f,i,k}.root-servers.net anycast instances deployed in India

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

... 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)