[IP] more on NEW TECHNOLOGY HERALDS UNLIMITED WEB SITES -- ICANN

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
Date: July 21, 2004 1:35:02 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] NEW TECHNOLOGY HERALDS UNLIMITED WEB SITES -- ICANN
Reply-To: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>


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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