[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?
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Ray Plzak
plzak at arin.net
Tue Jul 20 14:02:31 CEST 2004
Sounds like a good idea to me. Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of > Jeroen Massar > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:54 AM > To: ipv6-wg at ripe.net > Subject: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown? > > Hi, > > As e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa has finally been delegated and works as of today I > want to propose the end-day for ip6.int. > > ip6.int has been deprecated in favor of ip6.arpa for almost 3 years > already (RFC3152 dates August 2001) thus it is time to clean up the > mess. Vendors have been able to update their stacks for almost 3 years, > ip6.arpa has been deployed on production (read RIR) IPv6 space already > for quite some time too. Thus now, with 6bone also having a working > ip6.arpa tree this seems to be a perfect opportunity to start shutting > down ip6.int. > > At the moment only Cisco IOS and Windows XP don't have ip6.arpa support, > but IOS has been addressed (they say) and Windows XP will be fixed with > SP2 due out per August. As neither of these are server OS's this doesn't > pose much of a problem anyway. People using IPv6 need to keep their > systems up-to-date anyways. > > I propose that RIPE, and actually any other RIR, stops any delegations > for ip6.int per 9/9/2006. Which is more than 3 years after the RFC has > been released. > > Greets, > Jeroen
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