At 11:46 AM +0200 2004-07-22, Joao Damas wrote:
Well, what other choice is there? :-) And anyway, since the overwhelming bulk of the world's name servers are IPv4-only, resolution over IPv6 doesn't seem to be a particularly productive exercise.
True enough.
True enough for what subset of users?
For that subset of users which are not using IPv6-only systems.
If the a user is interested in only a few and those provide the service that user needs and uses, what does he/she care about a million servers out there?
IMO, the real problem is knowing, a priori, precisely which set of servers you'd need to talk to via IPv6-only methods. If you knew that, you wouldn't have to worry about whether or not there is any glue at the root. Of course, we might be able to try to answer these sorts of questions for small-scale testing environments, but in the general case it is impossible to know this. Therefore, we have to try to build the systems such that we do provide the necessary links from the root. The real question is what to do in the transition period, and how do you decide where you are in the transition period? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.