[address-policy-wg] IPv6 access to K-root

iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum) wrote:

> >Oh, and regarding Iljitsch: The root/*tld server operators 
> >unfortunately
> >can't force anyone to use EDNS0 compatible software. In theory,
> >everything's simple.
> 
> I think the intersection between the group that doesn't use EDNS0 and 
> the group that supports IPv6 is negligible. And it any event, dropping 
> IPv6 glue addresses from the response is hardly deadly. I can 
> understand why the root people are somewhat concerned about the boot 
> strapping thing, but for TLDs this isn't an issue.

I'll leave this part to Peter, since I'm not sure how to care for
dropping the "correct" parts - I still believe we'll have to make
sure the full set gets through to the requestor, and the dropping
occurs there. And then you're again stuck with your 510 Byte limit.

Unless...unless of course you can influence the order in which your
$DNS_SOFTWARE outputs the records. Alas, I'm not comfortable with
dropped content, so I favour the "smaller packet" approach.

Anyway, Peter's turn :-)

Elmar.

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