Re: IPv6 dns

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

i think this discussion was played in the dnsop meeting in san diego.

> The situation is fairly simple. A lot of us would like to be able to
> deploy v6 only hardware, without depending on v4 translator boxes in
> various places.

so how will you get dns resolution for, e.g., psg.com?

> Now you may argue (reasonably) that you also need lots of other hosts
> further along in the DNS server hierarchy running v6 as well, and
> you're right -- but that doesn't lessen the argument for why some of
> us want roots running v6 transport deployed.

i believe the point was, given that it is believed to be unsafe to deploy a
rogue root server that is actually used, or at least it needs further study,
that maybe you can conduct testing that v6 dns servers work a bit lower in
the dns hierarchy just as usefully.

during that time, you have a nice window to explain what you really want to
test at the root, and folk can look at constructing a prudent and documented
experiment.

randy