Hi Carlos, Carlos Friacas wrote:
Hello,
As you may have noticed "M", located at Tokyo was assigned 2001:0DC3::/32 from APNIC last week, with the status "ASSIGNED PORTABLE".
Looking at http://www.root-servers.org, i see there are two root-servers located in the RIPE region that could get a /32 from RIPE, provided that RIPE would adopt the same policy than APNIC in this case:
There is an adopted policy in the RIPE region described in the document "IPv6 Addresses for Internet Root Servers in the RIPE Region" (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-rootservers.html). If any of the DNS root operators applies for the address space there are /32 reserved for them.
- "I" at Stockholm, Sweden; - "K" at London, England.
As for the K (being an operator of this server) we don't have definite plans for ipv6 deployment. Also there are different views on how ipv6 access should be provided to the root zone.
Regarding the other 10 dns root servers, 2 of them already have IPv6 assignments from ARIN's microallocation pool ("F" and "H"), which is in fact a different approach. As we speak im getting around 400ms rtt to "H" and about 240 rtt to "F". Anybody (around Europe) is getting significantly better values?
Any comments?
Regards,
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