While the TKRC, as Oguamanam has observed, has vastly improved the scope and depth of the IPC, one can argue that classifications abstracted from context can result in a demeaning of practices, to a lessening of its aura and a negation of its meanings and aesthetics. Surender Kaur Verma (2004: 766) in an article that explores the viability of sui generis systems of TK, makes the point, that for many holders of TK, it 'holds a sacred value which they would not part with for money. They want to safeguard their knowledge from plunder.