where are these statistics from - I cannot believe that more than a few
percent of the net uses non-USG root. 

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
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