Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:32:56AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Just curious: why was there a change from ip6.int to ip6.arpa in the 
> first place?

Politics that no sane minds will be able to understand.

> And I suggest that those who find it hard to support both just go ahead 
> and drop ip6.int themselves and see what problems this causes rather 
> than push for elimination of ip6.int wholesale. In fact, it would 
> probably be a good idea to keep ip6.int around forever. If nobody uses 
> it, there is no harm in it being there. If people still use it, then 
> removing it causes problems.

Maintaining both trees does cause quite some administrative overhead
(depending on the name server software and zone file format you use, you 
cannot just point both zones to the same file.  Even if you can, the
whole thing falls apart if you want to delegate a /48 to your customer,
and the customer has only ip6.arpa, but not ip6.int -> lame delegation,
or distinct zone files further up the tree).

Gert Doering
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