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Re: AAAA records to be added for root servers

2008-01-04 13:04:12
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:33:54PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:


--On Monday, 31 December, 2007 10:05 -0800 Barbara Roseman
<barbara(_dot_)roseman(_at_)icann(_dot_)org> wrote:

On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6
addresses of the four root servers whose operators have
requested it. 

...

While I _strongly_ favor this move, it is often, if not always,
useful to examine the applications that use the DNS as well as
effects on the DNS itself.  

{ SMTP/MX interaction described }

Again, there is no specific root server issue in any of this,
but it concerns me that none of the relevant committees or
studies appear to have considered the possible applications
implications of the change.

regards,
     john

        actually, there was on at least two occasions the explicit
        scoping of the consideration to the DNS-specific issues.
        interactions with other applications was ruled out of scope
        regarding the issues of adding what is effectively a new
        address family to the DNS.  The general answer when needing
        to communicate between similar applications that run on
        different address families has traditionally been the application
        layer gateway (ALG) ...  


--bill

Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).


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