Experimental ICMP Domain Name messages - RFC-to-be

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Folks,

The RFC Editor has received this Experimental RFC-to-be 
submission from Bill Simpson.  Is this kosher to the IESG?

Joyce and --jon.

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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 22:48:14 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Experimental ICMP Domain Name messages

In accordance with communcations with the DNSIND WG Chair, and an IPng
Area Director, I will be submitting an Experimental Protocol for
publication.  I will send you nroff and text, per usual.


> From: [e-mail] (Randy Bush)
> Subject: Re: Proposed or Experimental?
>
> I will propose it to the group as experimental.  This may help deflect heat
> from Bill, though that might dissapoint him. :-)
>
> > I will say that if this type of thing is not agreed to it does complicate
> > some of the IPng autoconfiguration issues.
>
> I suspect that it may not be that Bill's proposal is itself disliked.  It
> may be that a bunch of issues including SIG security may be causing folk to
> be reluctant to let go of the in-addr.arpa (or v6.int or whatever) zone.

> From: Scott Bradner <[e-mail]>
> Bill has a point, this would have to be redone for IPv6 and thus currently
> refers to IPv4 - as such I'd support it going to Experimental now and
> still have the general topic brought up in Danvers to see if it should be
> further explored for IPv6.
>
It should be exactly identical for v6, but have different ICMP types.

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