On 22 Jul, 2004, at 14:41, Jim Reid wrote:
BTW, the IANA document which sparked this discussion talks about changing TLD delegations when there are "serious operational problems". Presumably these arise after the TLD and IANA have acted responsibly by applying some carefully considered (but not fully thought out?) change to the delegation.
It is extremely difficult to prove you have addressed all possible situations when dealing with a system such as the Internet. That is why there is the hook there enabling the IANA to take action if there are operational problems. No one anticipates operational problems arising from this change if the proper checks outlined in the document are done, but it is nice to have a safety mechanism. Imagine there was indeed an operational problem and that the IANA had to initiate a formal discussion, that had to come to a consensus, on what to do about it. A bloody nightmare if you ask me. So I think the document and procedure has been as thought out as it could have been and as dfk says, it then becomes a matter of confidence on the organisation currently tasked with providing the service.
Finally, by encouraging the IPv6-only people to go off into their own little world, we fragment the internet and its name space.
Joao> No, you just are not getting it. I am talking about Joao> enabling, you are talking about limiting.
I'm doing no such thing. Though I may well not be "getting it". What we seem to be disagreeing about is tactics and strategy, not policy. ie We agree IPv6 has to be deployed in the DNS. Where we differ is in how to achieve that. You seem to be saying "just do it".
No just do it, just get on with doing it.
I'm saying "let's first try to understand what we're getting ourselves into". IMO the internet today is too big and too important for the "just do it" approach that was possible 10 or more years ago.
10 years ago people also acted mostly in a responsible way. When you contemplate all cases, there will be some under which some people will be able to cut themselves off the Internet, intentionally or not (remember the MS name server debacle a couple of years ago?) That sort of situation can't stop progress. Joao