v6 gluelessness

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Jan 22 08:47:17 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:29:51PM +0100,
 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com> wrote 
 a message of 17 lines which said:

> This is suboptimal because it limits the opportunity for nameservers
> to measure RTTs and contact the fastest server.

So it adds a very small amount of work (and maintained state) for the
DNS resolvers. Not a big deal.

> TLD operators should make up their mind: either control their
> servers, or trust the people that they gave control to to make these
> kinds of decisions.

Currently, with the present ICANN procedures, this is not an
option. ICANN knows only the TLD managers, not the nameserver
managers. For ICANN, rip.psg.com depends on the TLD it serves, not on
Randy Bush. (It would be a sensible model, but a different model, with
different actors.)



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