[dns-wg] Deprecation of ip6.int scheduled for 1 June 2006

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 19:02 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> now if the IETF & the RIRs could just get rid of all that 
>>> deployed resolver code that looks for ip6.int by fiat.
>> actually, i think it was kazu yamamoto who just gave a good
>> analysis of why this is really not going to cause significant
>> issues.
> 
> I don't know what Kazu San said about it, but one of the main reasons
> being that the roots will from 1/6/2006 nicely return NXDOMAIN and the
> resolver code won't try any further. 

In the interests of pedantry, it won't be the roots that return NXDOMAIN, it
will be the INT TLD name servers. The ip6.int delegation (although not the
maintenance of the actual zone) is a service brought to you by your friends
at ICANN. :)

Also, FWIW, I agree with the general consensus that this should be pretty
much a non-issue. In addition to the other sources mentioned, I know that
the RIRs were doing research on this going back to at least 2004, so this
decision has not been made lightly. Pulling the plug on this patient is the
kindest thing for all concerned.

Doug

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