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Kurt Erik Lindqvist
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Mon Jun 21 07:37:06 CEST 2004
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-06-20, at 23.02, Gert Doering wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 01:38:29PM +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >> I talked this week in Santa Monica to Doug Barton (copied) IANA >> General Manager. > [..] >> I believe the document being followed for this is RFC2450 >> (ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2450.txt), authored by Bob >> Hinden (copied). > > Indeed, this might be the root of all evil. Section 5.1, the "Sub-TLA" > stage (which boils down to /23s). > > The really bad thing about this is twofold: > > - this document should have never been written - the IETF shouldn't > try to micro-manage the whole registry system, and the IANA > shouldn't > micro-manage the individual RIRs. > > - and the fact that ICANN is slavishly following a document that > was written in December 1998 and says about itself "the proposed TLA > and NLA assignment rules described in this document are intended for > the first two years of IPv6 TLA address assignments" without > actually > *telling* people about the problem, and without getting people to > actually *update* these guiding rules, somewhere in the years > between > 2000 and 2004. Agreed. PErhaps the best way forward is simply to move 2450 to historic. - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQNZ0CKarNKXTPFCVEQJ9zQCfbpyyreq+6lB/7AdBpmbfDuAYFucAoPUT edFJPFSNjfVdP13Yl1yJNfW0 =JEWp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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