Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that from 1 June 2006, reverse delegations in the ip6.int DNS tree corresponding to IPv6 address space allocated by the RIPE NCC will no longer be supported. On 1 June 2006, RIPE NCC delegations will be deleted from the ip6.int zone. Following this we will remove the zones from the authoritative servers and delete the corresponding DOMAIN objects in the RIPE Whois Database. The maintainers of the DOMAIN objects to be deleted will also receive individual notifications 1 week prior to the deletion. This is being coordinated with other RIRs and is based on an IETF Best Current Practice document (RFC 4159). Regards, Andrei Robachevsky Chief Technical Officer RIPE NCC On 14 March 2006 Andrei Robachevsky wrote:

Dear Colleagues

In August 2005, the IETF published RFC 4159: 'Deprecation of "ip6.int"', as a Best Current Practice document. The RFC noted that maintenance of "ip6.int" is no longer needed and called on the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to decide when to stop providing support for the domain. The RIRs have jointly agreed to do this on 1 June 2006.

There will be a short presentation on this at the RIPE 52 Meeting in Istanbul. You can find more information about this meeting at:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-52/index.html

Regards

Andrei Robachevsky Chief Technical Officer RIPE NCC