I am the CTO of Bluzelle Networks. We have launched a MSB-licensed gateway out of Canada, and are quite interested in running an INR gateway for India.

Would love to re-start this conversation and find more information on what is necessary to do this.

Possibly the most important question is around licensing -- do any of you have a proper license to do this, and if not, are you in the process of acquiring one? Do you know specifically what is required to run a gateway in India?

On another note, Ripple in itself IS decentralized. It comes down to how it is actually implemented, but the design is a decentralized one. Ripple is a protocol, not a currency. It happens to have a native currency called XRP that is pre-mined but comparing Ripple to Bitcoin directly is not quite accurate.