Cloudy Cloud Computing Paper By TRAI

I am rather disappointed with the 119 page consultation paper on cloud computing from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). This is the third instance in the last couple of months where the TRAI is inquiring into aspects which should be left to market forces or dealt with by other regulators. The first two instances being its suggestion to control content providers and aggregators in its paper on free data and then confusing issues of privacy and security with net neutrality issues in its pre consultation paper on net neutrality.

The mandate of the current government is 'ease of doing business' and 'liberalise' / 'de-regulate' what ought not to be regulated. Most of the issues raised in the cloud computing paper, however, seek to do exactly the opposite!