At 7:57 PM -0500 11/5/00, !dr.baptista wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:34:04 -0500 (EST) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <baptista@pccf.net> Reply-To: orange@dns.list To: list@ifwp.org Cc: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.NETSOL.COM, orange@dns.list, NCDNHC <NCDNHC-Discuss@lyris.isoc.org> Subject: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking

Last year alternate roots supported 0.3% of internet traffic.

This year alternate roots are supporting 5.5% of internet traffic.

The BIND study this year to date has ennumerated 60,513 dns (15% of 399,937 dns) of which 3,331 report they are using non-USG roots.

In my opinion - this is significant. And it puts a whole new twist on the song - what a difference a day makes.

This is indeed great news! I don't follow DNS/ICANN issues much, but it seems apparent that ICANN's heavy-handed, US-centric, politically correct, imperialist policies have backfired. Perhaps we should be _thanking_ Esther for this sabotage rather than criticizing her! --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.