[6bone] AAAA and A6 recent status?

[Michael Kjorling]

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On May 21 2002 08:26 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:

> a6, dname, and bitstring labels are dog meat.  folk should spend
> their time on useful work.
>
> randy

And if you pardon my question, what do you consider to be "useful
work"? I believe that working toward an actual standard with regards
to IPv6 forward and reverse mapping is a good thing, instead of having
the current situation with two different standards and ad-hoc
solutions to "interconnect" them.

Both the AAAA and A6 record types have advantages as well as
disadvantages. Unfortunately I don't think there is any simple
solution, especially not to combine AAAA's speed with the ease of
renumbering brought forth by A6. If I had a good idea I would have
submitted an I-D long ago.


Michael Kjörling

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