New addresses for b.root-servers.net

Fri Jun 16 03:33:13 UTC 2023

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:52 PM Wes Hardaker <wjhns61 at hardakers.net> wrote:
> William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> writes:
> > At some point, somebody's going to want to do something with the old
> > /24.
>
> You are correct that we did not state we will or will not be returning
> the address block we have back to ARIN.  We do not plan on returning it
> for precisely the reasons you've specified.  Even if we were going to,
> we would certainly stop responding on it for a long time first.  And
> even if we returned it, I suspect that ARIN itself would consider
> carefully what to do with a returned address in the critical
> infrastructure block.

Hi Wes,

Due respect, you should have a better fleshed-out commitment to the
community than, "Here today, gone tomorrow. Probably not. Maybe." Not
to put words in your mouth, but try something like, "We will continue
serving root DNS requests from the old address indefinitely. We will
notify the community of any change in that disposition at least 1 year
prior to the change and will describe, at that time, what will
change."

Don't say, "We'll keep it up for as long as we feel like it, but at
least a year." That's crap.

> TL;DR: we agree and it's covered.

Say the words. THEN we agree that it's covered.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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William Herrin
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