Itojun,
My take as implementor and deployer champion is I don't care anymore. No
one is going to use it till it works and thats a coding and performance of
implementation issue. We are working on the BIND issues of performance
now in the deployment community for IPv6. If necessary we will pay the
highest bidder to get it done and perform. But until then I tell users to
just use AAAA. Cause it works now.
/jim
On Tue, 1 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Right or wrong. Paul's comment is valid. A6 will be deployed at least on
> >BIND (well it is now actually) and on Microsofts DNS is my read.
> >
> >As one of the people to fund BIND future development and with others we
> >believe it should not be implemented for greater than 3 levels of
> >hierarchy till more testing and experimentation is done. But A6 will be
> >shipped on the street and its a done deal.
> >
> >Do I like A6 no.
> >Do I think a better solution exists yes.
> >But do I advocate deployment of A6 yes.
> >Why because its time to move forward.
> >
> >I also thought continuing private address space was a bad idea in v6. I
> >still do. KNow what I hope to help build that feature in our products.
>
> what I am worrying is that A6 is contributing negatively to the
> deployment of IPv6, due to less availability in code. it may have a
> positive impact if it gets deployed worldwide (less signing cost on
> renumber), but i guess the negative impact (to deployment) is bigger
> than the benefits from less signing cost.
> today there's no commercial/free software OS (i know of) that ships
> with A6-chasing resolver. not sure they will ever migrate to BIND9
> resolvers, many of them are still stuck with BIND4 resolver (with
> security fixes, of course) because of binary backward compatibility
> issues and local changes they have made.
>
> maybe this feeling is because I'm from very IPv6-deployment-aggressive
> region. i really would like to see IPv6 NS records to be available
> everywhere, including root, and A6 is one of the obstacles for IPv6
> NS record deployment.
>
> anyway, i'll shut up and write up a draft.
>
> itojun
>
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