Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

[Gert Doering <]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:23:35AM +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> > Let me put it this way, what services do the IXP operators run outside
> > the mesh that absolutely requires IPv6 space and is considered
> > "critical", from the perspective of requiring globally routable space? 
> > I
> 
> TLD DNS hosting comes to mind.

Why?  

I know that this has surfaced on the last RIPE meeting already, but I still 
think that a TLD name server is in no way special - it's IP address can
be resolved by querying the root, so it doesn't need to have a fixed IP
address "forever".  If the address changes (which of course should not
happen every couple of weeks) change the glue record in the root, and
that's it.

For the root name servers themselves, we have a "root name server IPv6
allocation policy" which permits static IPv6 allocations.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations:  57021 (57147)

SpaceNet AG                 Mail: netmaster@localhost
Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14   Tel : +49-89-32356-0
80807 Muenchen              Fax : +49-89-32356-299