On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, vinton g. cerf wrote: > where are these statistics from - I cannot believe that more than a few > percent of the net uses non-USG root. It's much more then that Vint. The last poll I conducted on the dns showed at least 5%. But that was a few years ago. The 30% comes from various discussions we had concerning new.net. At the time the internet had about 300 million users - estimated by various sources and new.net claimed some 80 million users. The bulk of the argument was held on the opensrs discussion lists hosted by tucows. So I have no doubt the estimate of 30% is now very conservative considering new.net now claims over 156 million users - but i don't know the user stats for current user population. However I suspect their market share has grown significantly since the 30% estimates. So there you have it - new.net is your competition by market share. the other alt.roots are peanuts in comparison. Now mind you new.net has purchased the right to be the navigator of record for those 156 million users. Unlike the USG root system which does not buy the publics affections. regards joe baptista > > Vint > > At 09:10 AM 11/23/2002 -0500, Joe Baptista wrote: > >The root servers struck by the attack assist computers in translating > >Internet domain names, such as www.circleid.com, to numeric equivalents > >used by computers. These servers provide the primary roadmap for 70% of > >all Internet communications. The remaining 30% of the net now uses > >competing root service providers who bypass the USG root system. They were > >not under attack. > > Vint Cerf > SVP Architecture & Technology > WorldCom > 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 > Ashburn, VA 20147 > 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) > 703 886 0047 fax >