Can some one bring me up to speed?

[Bob Fink]

Stephen,

At 01:33 PM 9/10/98 +0100, Stephen Burley wrote:
>Hi
>        I am interested in the "AAAA"/"A6" thread which is not on the web site
>archive yet could someone please bring me up to speed as to the current
>thoughts?

Here is the best I can do easily (note it's on ngtrans not the 6bone).


Bob

>Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 10:36:41 +0200 
>To: ngtrans@sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM 
>From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no> 
>Subject: (ngtrans) Possible AAAA Record Transition Strategies 
>
>OK, now we're settled (I think):
>
>
>- The One True Draft is draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-lookups-01.txt
>- The One True Record Type is "A6"
>- The IPNG WG has agreement that they want "A6" to be deployed.
>
>
>Now it's a transition issue.
>
>
>QUESTION 1: What is the current state?
>
>
>- Fact: AAAA records exist.
>- Possibility 1: Deployed code that uses AAAA only exists, and is
>prohibitively
>                 expensive to update
>- Possibility 2: Deployed code that uses AAAA only exists, but can be
>                 updated at reasonable cost to A6 given enough time
>
>
>QUESTION 2: What is the desired final state?
>
>
>- Possibility 1: Only A6 records exist in the DNS
>- Possibility 2: Some sites have A6 records, some sites have AAAA records
>- Possibility 3: Some sites have A6 records, all sites have AAAA records
>- Possibility 4: All sites have A6 records, some sites have AAAA records
>
>
>I sure hope we're not aiming for 2.....
>
>
>QUESTION 3: What are the intermediate states between now and the final state?
>
>
>No suggestions.
>
>
>                 Harald A
>
>
>-- 
>Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
>Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no