Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:55:10PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
So who authorized this?
The normal RIPE policy process. People discussed it, and decided it's a useful idea to have a way to get well-known IPv6 addresses to root servers. The resulting document is ripe-233: --------------------- snip --------------------- IPv6 Addresses for Internet Root Servers in the RIPE Region Joao Luis Silva Damas Document ID: ripe-233 Date: 24 May 2002 Abstract This document describes the special case assignment policy for Internet DNS root servers in the RIPE region. --------------------- snip --------------------- The progress that led to this policy is documented in the archives.
It looks a lot like the RIPE NCC doesn't have to stick to its own rules when it doesn't feel like it.
Please try to get your facts straigth *before* making such statements. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71007 (66629) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234