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To: dnsop@cafax.se
From: Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:26:00 +0100
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030326154400.01a84760@mail.amaranth.net>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doing reverse for IPv6.



--On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 15:51:28 -0500 Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
wrote:

> 
> Order, as in: their broadband provider has a clue? Let's face it, there
> are lots of folks who don't have control over this. So if you claim this
> check isn't being done for security reasons, then it merely smacks of
> elitism.

No, for order reasons. It might be a feature that the end-user cannot
update the reverse. It tells me things about the hosts that try to connect.
Things I may choose to disregard or not. But I want them. 

> I am glad there's so much discussion of INADDR. I was unable to get much
> discussion of it in the last few years in working on
> draft-ietf-dnsop-inaddr-required-xx with the intention of publishing as a
> BCP indicating best practices in this area. I'll revive this, either as
> an individual submission or WG item, if folks will actually provide
> constructive input.

I wholeheartedly support this draft. Please do resubmit or hand the token
over if you do not want to yourself. 

-- 
Måns Nilsson            Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204         KTHNOC  MN1334-RIPE

We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.

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