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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 12 August 2011 01:05 UTC

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On 2011-08-12 11:47, Mark Andrews wrote:
> I think it is make work 

That's why I am only suggesting an IESG decision, not a draft
and an RFC.

> 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 it's historic, servers shouldn't even contain any A6 records,
surely?

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

Different topic, and I suspect much more complex.

   Brian

> 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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