ip6.int deprecation
Dear wg, I have heard from Bill Manning that ARIN has requested removal of their space from the ip6.int tree, and I'm wondering what the current point of view is for the RIPE NCC. I would like to see ip6.int dismanteled 'correctly', ie not in the way described below: I wrote to ipv6-ops@lists.cluenet.de:
I have heard DNS operators are planning on removing ip6.int from their resolvers (ie by plugging ip6.int into an empty zone on their recursors). What are your thoughts on this? I am considering removing ip6.int also in the same way, because I think it can take a long time for the parent of .int to remove ip6 delegation (if they are even considering this is unknown to me) and for sure it might take a long time for the ip6.int folks to remove children from their zone.
Bill replied: | ip6.int is ready to remove zone cuts for ARIN. | they are the only RIR who has requested delegation removal. | when/if the other RIRs request delegation removal, it will | occur. Has this been discussed before? If so, I'm sorry I missed it :) What was the outcome in that case? I think it is a very good idea to have RIPE NCC and APNIC request delegation removal. -- ---------- - - - - -+- - - - - ---------- Pim van Pelt Email: pim@ipng.nl http://www.ipng.nl/ IPv6 Deployment -----------------------------------------------
On May 8, 2006, at 13:54, Pim van Pelt wrote:
I have heard from Bill Manning that ARIN has requested removal of their space from the ip6.int tree, and I'm wondering what the current point of view is for the RIPE NCC.
Has this been discussed before? If so, I'm sorry I missed it :) What was the outcome in that case? I think it is a very good idea to have RIPE NCC and APNIC request delegation removal.
Pim, there has been discussion about the "future" of ip6.int for some time now in the RIPE DNS WG. Mostly this has happened at RIPE meetings rather than on the list. The consensus is that ip6.int should be killed. And at RIPE52, there was some discussion about not just deleting the delegations but removing ip6.int altogether. Co-ordination of this clean-up of the legacy IPv6 reverse address space is being done by the RIRs. They are acting collectively. The plan is to delete the ip6.int delegations by June 1st. The RIRs will do this at the same time. The name servers for ip6.int are getting next to no traffic -- probably nothing but SOA refresh checks -- so removal of this zone should have no operational impact. If you need further info, please check the WG minutes and relevant presentations from the last 3 or 4 RIPE meetings. Andrei Robachevsky from the NCC gave an update on the situation during RIPE52. His presentation is at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-52/presentations/ripe52-dns- ip6-int.pdf My guess is Bill's comment has confused you by implying that ARIN was the only RIR to make a request for removal when in fact they presumably were the first RIR to make that request.
Jim, On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:19:01AM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
If you need further info, please check the WG minutes and relevant presentations from the last 3 or 4 RIPE meetings. Andrei Robachevsky from the NCC gave an update on the situation during RIPE52. His presentation is at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-52/presentations/ripe52-dns-ip6-int.p... This is a very short and to-the-point presentation, I must admit ;-)
My guess is Bill's comment has confused you by implying that ARIN was the only RIR to make a request for removal when in fact they presumably were the first RIR to make that request. It did indeed, thanks so much for clearing this up. I feel much more confident now than I did yesterday with regards to the removal of ip6 from int.
groet, Pim -- Met vriendelijke groet, BIT BV / Ing P.B. van Pelt PBVP1-RIPE (PGPKEY-4DCA7E5E)
ip6.int is dead. who cares how a deal rock is removed from the roadside? randy
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