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To: Shane Kerr <shane@ripe.net>
CC: dnsop@cafax.se
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:36:00 +0859 ()
In-Reply-To: <20010720121515.A30013@x17.ripe.net> from Shane Kerr at "Jul 20,2001 12:15:18 pm"
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: IP6.INT mapping

Shane;

> In light of the draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-02.txt draft, I'm
> curious what work has been done on the operation aspects of
> administering an IPv6 network's IP6.INT mappings.

There is some operational/administrative experience in an environment
much much smaller than that of IPv4.

> In my mind the big issue is exchanging secrets - I suspect this is
> always a problem in any autoconfiguring environment.  Whether this is
> from the ISP to the home, or from the devices to the home DNS server,
> the problem seems similiar.

It is well known that stateless autoconfiguration is useful in a small
closed environment but is totally useless in an open environment of
the Internet.

						Masataka Ohta

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