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Re: v6 gluelessness

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Fri Jan 18 18:57:43 2008 

> IANA is expecting to add the AAAAs of the 4 root servers that
> have requested it (to date) on/around 4 Feb.

way cool!

> As you will (or already have) discover, you are entering a
> particularly unpleasant area of existing policy, namely dealing
> with a name server that is shared by many TLDs.  We're trying to
> fix this, but (as with seemingly all things associated with
> ICANN), it is taking too long.

indeed. part of the reply i got is utterly amazing! quote from that reply (not from you) is as follows:

> Before we can make the IPv6 address addition for this name server
> in the root zone, we need to get confirmation from the listed
> contacts for all 21 ccTLD managers (both the administrative and
> technical contacts for each TLD).

[ aside from s/21/23/ ]

i'll bet you one really nice dinner that the icann and commerce political process to fix this will actually complete before you can get email back from all admin and tech pocs from 23 cctlds.

and please tell me why any of the tech and admin pocs of these cctlds should give a <bleep> what my server's actual ip address is. isn't the dns specifically supposed to provide the level of indirection to obviate this?

i hope they pay you a lot.

randy