[6bone] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ymbk-6bone-arpa-delegation-01.txt

[Pekka Savola]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Pekka Savola wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line 
> > Internet-Drafts directories.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Title		: Delegation of 3.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA
> > > 	Author(s)	: R. Bush, R. Fink
> > > 	Filename	: draft-ymbk-6bone-arpa-delegation-01.txt
> > > 	Pages		: 5
> > > 	Date		: 2003-4-2
> > > 	
> > > This document discusses the need for delegation of the
> > > E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA DNS zone in order to enable reverse lookups for
> > > 6bone addresses, and makes specific recommendations for the process
> > > needed to accomplish this.
> > 
> > Looks very good.  Let's ship it.
> 
> Indeed, the soone the better.
> 
> One note howeever about ip6.int. Is ip6.int being phased at
> the same time as the 6bone (6/6/2006) or is there a earlier
> phaseout time thus forcing administrators and implementors
> to have their software fully ip6.arpa aware as endusers will
> start noticing that reverses are not available under ip6.int?
> For instance, if this system is implemented before the summer
> starts (july 2003) and systems are running cleanly, we could
> opt to deprecate ip6.int completely per december 2003.

I'd favor deprecation of ip6.int as soon as it's reasonable, before the 
death of 6bone.  Having to maintain two sets of reverse records is 
confusing.

However, the issue does not need anything in the proposed I-D, and can be 
implemented separately when/if we feel fit.

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