[IP] more on NEW TECHNOLOGY HERALDS UNLIMITED WEB SITES -- ICANN
Begin forwarded message:
From: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 21, 2004 1:35:02 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] NEW TECHNOLOGY HERALDS UNLIMITED WEB SITES -- ICANN
Reply-To: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Oy, the ghost of P.T. Barnum must be inhabiting ICANN (again) - IPv6
AAAA records have been found in third tier (and deeper) DNS zones
around the net for quite a while. All that happened yesterday was that
the zones for .jp and .kr joined the club.
The DNS root servers themselves are not accessible via IPv6 nor are
there widely deployed mechanisms through which regular domain owners
can declare to their registrars that they have IPv6 servers of their
own.
A new internet-draft appeared yesterday:
Title : DNS Response Size Issues
Author(s) : P. Vixie, A. Kato
Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-respsize-01.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 2004-7-20
It addresses many (but to my mind, not all) of the issues of adding
IPv6 address records to root zone delegations.
It is interesting that this draft came out yesterday, *after* ICANN
went ahead with the IPv6 records. In other words, ICANN apparently
acted *before* the questions had been fully asked, much less fully
answered.
That kind of action-before-thinking stands in stark contrast to the way
that ICANN has spent years agonizing over the much easier technical
question of whether we can technically add a few hundred, or even a few
thousand, new TLDs. (Note, I'm only talking about the technical
question, not about the harder policy question of who gets those TLD
slots.)
--karl--
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