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To: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
Cc: ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com, users@ipv6.org, dnsop@cafax.se
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:55:37 -0800
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: (ngtrans) Re: IPv6 dns

> I think it was recognized a long time ago that the initial deployment
> of A6 records should be limited to two (or at most 3) levels. The question
> is whether that is enough to avoid the horrors described by Dan Bernstein 
> over on IPNG.

'clever' people are likely to seriously abuse DNAME and A6.  we have already
seen unnecessary and confusing attempted use of DNAME over in the enum wg.
is there any *significant* advantage to them allowing more than one level of
indirection?

randy

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