Hi Mikey The good news I guess is that the distribution is improving, however the current state of play will certainly fuel arguments from those governments who feel they're still getting a poor deal. Tony -----Original Message----- From: owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-ispcp@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Mike O'Connor Sent: 08 May 2012 22:17 To: ispcp@icann.org Subject: [ispcp] distribution of root servers to internet-users, worldwide hi all, this seems like especially interesting reading for those of us who are based outside North America and Europe. it would be helpful to go a little deeper than this analysis and get a better feel for things like latency and congestion. it would also be interesting to understand some of the deeper/historical rate-of-change rates (for example change in users vs change in root-servers over time). http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/05/07/the-very-uneven-distribution-of-dns-root -servers-on-the-internet/ Internet users per DNS root server site Asia -- 20,335,982 Africa -- 8,742,203 Middle East -- 8,557,888 South America -- 8,426,945 Europe -- 4,957,660 North America -- 3,750,804 Oceania -- 1,407,497 World average -- 7,557,446 mikey - - - - - - - - - phone 651-647-6109 fax 866-280-2356 web http://www.haven2.com handle OConnorStP (ID for public places like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.)