[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> However, I still have difficulties to understand the
>> merit of having ".ip6.int" or ".ip6.arpa" or even
>> ".mickey-mouse" for holding the reverse records. That
>> must be a 100 % political decision with no merit at all.
> Well... we *DO* need to agree on what the root of the reverse tree will
> be - otherwise it's hard to write tools that do reverse lookups. ;)
Fine, I have no problem with that statement.
> The politics starts when you realize that somebody owns the spot that
> you're parking the tree.
> Using .mickey-mouse is bad - there's *enough* Bad Karma attached to the
> whole TLD issue via ICANN and the like.
Sure, I also understand that there are many intercoursing
manureholes around there (is this term polite enough :-) ?
> Using .ip6.int or .ip6.arpa requires that the manager(s) of .int or .arpa
> agree/consent/support that usage (which they may not, for a number of
> reasons). Looking at the SOA/NS entries for .INT and .ARPA is rather
> revealing. I'm pretty sure that the current set of NS entries for .INT
> is sufficient to support reverse lookups under the current level of IP6
> deployment, but will require some major upgrading in the future. ;)
Therefore, I believe that meritocracy is fine at a WG
level. Unfortunately, it is not at the upper level like
IESG and IAB. Worse, requiring an ICANN BoD candidate
be highly technical skilled sounds like requiring Lou Gestner
(IBM, an ex cookie manager, http://www.ibm.com/lvg/ )
to understand the inner beauty of an IBM 360/91 pipeline
processor.
Last, perhaps long time IETF participants (or whatever
the political term is), should take a sabbatical term: life
is not just reading emails (especially on weekends)! Visiting
South Africa is a good idea, to study on how a minority gave
up its long time domination.
regards,
--
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org
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