To:
Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc:
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>, Havard Eidnes <he@runit.no>, seamus@bit-net.com, users@ipv6.org, dnsop@cafax.se, ngtrans@sunroof.eng.sun.com
From:
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date:
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:32:55 -0800
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: (ngtrans) Re: IPv6 dns
> regarding the new root servers which respond to queries over IPv6 - > one thing you didn't quite mention, but I suspect is necessary, is > that their IPv6 addresses be stable. that is, that once root > servers are established at these addresses and are advertised, > that there will continue to be authoritative root servers at > those addresses for the forseeable future. > > this has implications for the roots; but perhaps also, for their > ISPs and for address assignment in general. regardless of what > assumptions we make about IPv6 renumbering elsewhere, we don't > want to renumber the root servers very often. and i thought y'all were talking about an *experiment*. randy