Re: eating our own dogfood...Re: IPv4 Outage

[David Conrad <[e-mail]>]

Ted,

We're serious about IPv6.

Unless something really unexpected occurs (e.g., the Internet breaks  
when we insert AAAAs into the root hints), IPv6 addresses will be  
available for root service via the normal mechanisms significantly  
before the next IETF.

Regards,
-drc

On Dec 19, 2007, at 4:27 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Wow, that is a rather.... lackadisical attitude being shown by the
> ICANN, isn't it?  I can't help thinking that if Jon Postel were still
> around, things would be moving a tad bit faster --- i.e., measured in
> minutes rather than at least months.  Hmm, perhaps years; on an IANA
> page I see a paper authored Ronald van der Pol and some other RIPE
> folks indicating that they had shown it was safe to add AAAA records
> to the root zone, published October 2003.
>
> One would hope that they will act by the December 18th ICANN board
> meeting, and that any other bureaucratic hurdles would be addressed
> sooner rather than later.  But if not, as ugly as it would have to be
> for the IETF to have to substitute root zone records just for the
> purpose of adding AAAA records for IPv6 DNS root zone servers for the
> March 2008 meeting, and as unfortunate as a precedent as that might
> set, it will have meant that ICANN will have dithered for NINE MONTHS
> over what seems to be a simple issue of adding IPv6 records, which
> means something is seriously wrong over at ICANN, and we should just
> fix the problem the way engineers know how to fix the problem, and let
> the political problem fix itself... whenever.  After all, if waiting
> at least 9 months hasn't helped, is there any evidence that waiting
> another 9 months would help any more?
>
> At the end of the day, either we're serious about IPv6 or we're not.
>
>       	      	       	      	    	    - Ted
>
> P.S.  Funny, looking at the ICANN board, I have to say that I'm
> surprised.  The board contains names like Harald Alvaestrand, Steve
> Crocker, Thomas Narten, in addition to the usual Lawyers and VC's.
>
> P.P.S.  Obviously, this is me speaking as an individual, not with any
> IETF hat on, or on behalf of my employer....
>
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