CDR: Re: Roots servers on rise - ICANN's golden egg cracking (fwd)

[Tim May]

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 at pccf.net>
>Reply-To: orange at dns.list
>To: list at ifwp.org
>Cc: DOMAIN-POLICY at LISTS.NETSOL.COM, orange at dns.list,
>      NCDNHC <NCDNHC-Discuss at 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
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