Re: (ngtrans) Re: IPv6 dns

[Randy Bush]

> regarding the new root servers which respond to queries over IPv6 -
> one thing you didn't quite mention, but I suspect is necessary, is 
> that their IPv6 addresses be stable. that is, that once root 
> servers are established at these addresses and are advertised,
> that there will continue to be authoritative root servers at 
> those addresses for the forseeable future.
> 
> this has implications for the roots; but perhaps also, for their
> ISPs and for address assignment in general.  regardless of what
> assumptions we make about IPv6 renumbering elsewhere, we don't
> want to renumber the root servers very often.

and i thought y'all were talking about an *experiment*.

randy