Hi, There haven't been followups after this (except my personal "I agree" note).
First, I think the proposals like given should be reflected in the transport guidelines document if we want them to be incorporated here; this document just includes a summary of the requirements of transport guidelines. Second, there are reasons (given by Rob) why making the statements more generic would be less useful to the users, so if we changed the text, we should be rather careful about it. So (editor hat on), unless I hear otherwise, I'm not changing the text at this point. On Tue, 4 May 2004, Rob Austein wrote: > <hat co-chair=off just-another-bozo=on> > > Ed, > > First off, I probably need to recuse as WG co-chair on this one, > since the transport guidelines doc is partly based on a back of a > (virtual) envelope proposal I made several years ago. Anyway.... > > In principle, I agree with you that what the doc ought to say is > "every zone should be available via every version of IP", full stop. > > The difficulty is that the situation is not as symmetrical as it > might seem. IPv4 is already deployed, and we can't do much about > all the zones for which all the authoritative name servers are > IPv4-only. We can say that it'd be nice for the world to fix this, > but IPv6 does not yet have enough traction for this to be much more > than wishful thinking, and I've never much cared for inventing rules > that we know aren't going to be enforced. We can, however, expect > that IPv6 deployment will take interoperability with IPv4 into > account, thus it's reasonable for us to say how to do that. > > Some day, a decade or so from now, when everything that matters is > dual stack and keeping IPv4 running costs more than it's worth, we > can write a new RFC that says that IPv4 support isn't required > anymore. But trying to write a document now for that far future day > just dilutes the message that today's document is to trying to send. > > So, while I understand where you're coming from, and can live with > the change you're proposing if that's the consensus, I think it'd be > better to leave the text alone. > > </hat> > . > dnsop resources:_____________________________________________________ > web user interface: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop.html > mhonarc archive: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop/index.html > -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings . dnsop resources:_____________________________________________________ web user interface: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop.html mhonarc archive: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop/index.html
