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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > NCDNHC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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.
