Re: Last Call: Delegation of IP6.ARPA to BCP

[Bruce Campbell <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote:

> > Files can be obtained via
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-ip6-arpa-delegation-02.txt
> 
> I have no idea on how "A new domain, IP6.ARPA, is defined to support 
> lookups based on IPv6 address." in RFC2874 becomes
> "IETF consensus was reached that the IP6.ARPA domain be used for
> address to DNS name mapping for the IPv6 address space"

Since the publication of RFC2874, there have been several meetings of the
IETF DNS working groups.  I believe these meetings and the relevant wg
mailing lists are the source of the consensus mentioned above.

For further comments on the draft (including the section typo), see the
original draft announcement.

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Bruce.

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