On 2011-08-12 11:47, Mark Andrews wrote: > I think it is make work That's why I am only suggesting an IESG decision, not a draft and an RFC.
> and won't change the amount of confusion. > In addition A6 allows compresssion of the domain name in the rdata > so it can't be treated as unknown (i.e. a opaque blob) by nameservers. If it's historic, servers shouldn't even contain any A6 records, surely? > If one wants to do something about IPv6 addresses in the DNS add > support for scoped addresses. Link-local could then be useful. Different topic, and I suspect much more complex. Brian > Mark > > In message > <22f6318e46e26b498abc828879b08d4f1786a...@tk5ex14mbxw652.wingroup.win > deploy.ntdev.microsoft.com>, Christian Huitema writes: >> It looked like a great idea at the time, but the time has passed, and >> historic >> is clearly appropriate. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tina >> T >> SOU >> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:13 PM >> To: Brian E Carpenter; 6man >> Cc: Tim Chown >> Subject: RE: A6 record status >> >> Brian, >> I'm with you. I don't use A6 record in any case. >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Tina TSOU >> http://tinatsou.weebly.com/contact.html >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Brian >> E Carpenter >> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 3:06 PM >> To: 6man >> Cc: Tim Chown >> Subject: A6 record status >> >> Hi, >> >> What do 6man people think about moving RFC 2874 (the A6 record) from >> Experimen >> tal to Historic status? >> >> It's pretty clear that it doesn't have any real value, and it can still >> create >> confusion for newcomers. >> >> IMHO this doesn't need a draft; the IESG could just do it. >> >> Regards >> Brian Carpenter >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >> [email protected] >> Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >> [email protected] >> Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >> [email protected] >> Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
