v6 gluelessness

Lucy Lynch llynch at civil-tongue.net
Fri Jan 18 21:35:24 UTC 2008


On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Randy Bush wrote:

>
>> It's the same process that is used to update a delegation in the root zone. 
>> For ccTLDs I believe there's some kind of web portal to allow such changes 
>> to be requested, but my experience is that the old text form also still 
>> works just fine.
>
> i actually spent 20 minutes on the iana web site.  admittedly that was far to 
> little time to navigate and appreciate the plethora of papers and 
> declarations on this and that.  i finally sent off an email, but have no 
> response, yet.  i have hope, as the team there now is pretty good.  it's 
> probably just my lack of talent at navigating that much layer >= 9 paper. 
> they need a link on the entry page saying "old ops folk go here."
>
>> I've done this a number of times over the past few years and have not had 
>> any problems.
>
> send url.

how about a pdf and a txt link?

get: http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-template.txt

modify and mail to: root-mgmt at iana.org

as per:

http://beta.iana.org/about/presentations/sarras-dubai-procedures-061120.pdf

>> I don't know what the process is for getting IPv6 addresses associated with 
>> host records in the VGRS COM/NET registry, but it seems like good 
>> information to share here if you find a definitive answer.
>
> i will.  i am trying to document ops processes for v6 in my feeble way, doing 
> it in a blog-like fashion.  e.g. for the sage of doing it at one small set of 
> servers see <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/ipv6-westin.html>. more clues would be 
> appreciated.  i am hoping all this will seem trite and passe in six months or 
> so.
>
> but if we can not find a way to get AAAA glue added to gTLDs such as the com 
> zone, we have a *serious* impediment to v6 deployment that needs to be fixed 
> quickly.
>
> randy
>



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