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

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:28:00PM -0600, Jim Fleming wrote:
> > > > 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".
> 
> To summarize...
> 
> 3FFE was supposed to be "experimental" but now it appears people want to change that...

No, but for the migration period, it will exist, and should coexist in
a useful way with 2001.

> IPv6 is supposed to use A6 DNS RRs but now people appear to want to change that...

A6 has been reclassified as experimental by the IETF after good 
consideration.  Take this up with them.

> .INT was supposed to be used by IPv6 but now people are demanding putting load on .ARPA servers...

This was a move that many people have problems understanding.  Indeed.

> ...and of course, no one wants to pay for any of these demands...and the cost of the changes is viewed as non-important...

I haven't seen anybody claiming that e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa isn't happening
due to fiscal problems.  If that's the case, I'm convinced it can be
solved.

(Besides - there are no dedicated .ARPA servers.  .ARPA is served by
the root servers, while ip6.arpa is served by ICANN and the RIRs,
which thus pay the cost for what they need)

> ...and to really sum it up...the claim is made that the U.S. is not needed, yet the demands are sent to the U.S.

The current technical situation being what it is, funding and requests
are sent to the U.S. - but if the US government insists to mess with
TLD operations (as you claim) it would be possible to move the stuff 
away from there.

Gert Doering
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