[6bone] Re: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] 6BONE database entries for non-3FFE space?

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, David Kessens wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:50:25PM +0300, ext Pekka Savola wrote:
> > 
> > I'd like to hear what others have done with regard to this..
> > 
> > Currently, we only have the RIPE 2001:FOO::/32 space anymore.  The 
> > assignments have been recorded in the RIPE database in the normal fashion, 
> > of course.  (Of course, the situation is the same with ARIN/APNIC/.. space 
> > too, but just to take an example.)
> > 
> > Have folks w/ production space kept the 6bone database 
> > 
> > http://www.viagenie.qc.ca/en/ipv6/registry/ and
> > http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/6Bone/Whois/
> > 
> > up-to-date especially regard to assigned /48 sites?
> > 
> > Or is there a rough consensus to let it rot in pieces for non-3FFE address
> > space?
> 
> I don't see much reason to duplicate data in the 6bone registry. This
> will only cause inconsistent data and that is not very desirable.
> However, I have a fairly large disk so I don't mind if people would
> like to this anyway.

Right.
 
> 'ipv6-site' objects are a completely different matter though. They
> describe actual routing information and there is at this point no
> alternative. In addition, we currently have a single unified registry
> in contrast to the situation with the ipv4 routing registries and we
> might want to keep it that way.

This was the actual point: the 6bone registry includes information that is 
not otherwise available, and may be useful (or not) to some.  For example, 
some have (erroneuously) used it to measure the number of IPv6 sites in a 
country.

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