0:0 .ARPA...Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Action points from the RIPE 43 meeting

["Jim Fleming" <]

From: "Gert Doering" gert@localhost
> We need to have reverse delegation for the 3FFE space, under ip6.arpa, 
> and this has to happen *now*, not "at some point far away to the
> future when 6bone has ceased to exist and everybody is living peacefully
> under the RIR's hoods".

http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc920.txt
"Now it is seen that there is no strong motivation for
there to be a top level ARPA domain.  The plan is for the current
ARPA domain to go out of business as soon as possible.  Hosts that
are currently members of the ARPA domain should make arrangements to
join another domain."
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gert Doering" gert@localhost
To: "Andrei Robachevsky" andrei@localhost
Cc: "Gert Doering" gert@localhost; ipv6-wg@localhost; "David Kessens" david@localhost
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Action points from the RIPE 43 meeting


> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:03:13PM +0100, Andrei Robachevsky wrote:
> > Gert Doering wrote:
> >  > thanks for your overview.  There's one thing that I'm missing, which
> >  >  is really important: reverse delegation for the 3FFE space under
> >  > ip6.arpa (while I'm not sure whether this is an "official ipv6-wg
> >  > action item", it has been mentioned in the IPv6-WG and the LIR-WG,
> >  > and has been stressed as being important to solve quickly).
> [..]
> > 
> > Thanks for bringing this issue up on the list. When approached initially 
> > by the IETF the RIRs jointly worked with the 6bone to see how 6bone 
> > address space could be incorporated into the registry system, providing 
> > registration services to participants of the 6bone.
> 
> I wasn't talking about the "6bone integration into the RIR system"
> proposal.
> 
> We need to have reverse delegation for the 3FFE space, under ip6.arpa, 
> and this has to happen *now*, not "at some point far away to the
> future when 6bone has ceased to exist and everybody is living peacefully
> under the RIR's hoods".
> 
> There's no need for the RIRs to actually do anything, besides give up
> the blockade position "the 6bone is not a RIR and per the RFC, only
> RIRs can do reverse delegation under ip6.arpa".  Have IANA delegate
> e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa to the same set of servers as e.f.f.3.ip6.int (as
> per Bill Manning's request that was denied due to RIR disapproval), 
> and be done with it.
> 
> This is really *really* annoying, and it's hurting IPv6 deployment.
> 
> Gert Doering
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