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Re: A6 record status

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Thu, 11 August 2011 23:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: A6 record status
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Cc: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, 6man <ipv6@ietf.org>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Tina TSOU <Tina.Tsou.Zouting@huawei.com>
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I think it is make work and won't change the amount of confusion.
In addition A6 allows compresssion of the domain name in the rdata
so it can't be treated as unknown (i.e. a opaque blob) by nameservers.

If one wants to do something about IPv6 addresses in the DNS add
support for scoped addresses.  Link-local could then be useful.

Mark

In message <22F6318E46E26B498ABC828879B08D4F1786A07E@TK5EX14MBXW652.wingroup.win
deploy.ntdev.microsoft.com>, Christian Huitema writes:
> It looked like a great idea at the time, but the time has passed, and historic
>  is clearly appropriate. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Tina T
> SOU
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:13 PM
> To: Brian E Carpenter; 6man
> Cc: Tim Chown
> Subject: RE: A6 record status
> 
> Brian,
> I'm with you. I don't use A6 record in any case.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Tina TSOU
> http://tinatsou.weebly.com/contact.html
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian 
> E Carpenter
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:06 PM
> To: 6man
> Cc: Tim Chown
> Subject: A6 record status
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What do 6man people think about moving RFC 2874 (the A6 record) from Experimen
> tal to Historic status?
> 
> It's pretty clear that it doesn't have any real value, and it can still create
>  confusion for newcomers.
> 
> IMHO this doesn't need a draft; the IESG could just do it.
> 
> Regards
>    Brian Carpenter
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