Bill- Don't say, "We'll keep it up for as long as we feel like it, but at > least a year." That's crap. >
30% of the root servers have been renumbered in the last 25 years. h : 2015 d: 2013 l : 2007 j : 2002 For these 4 cases, only a 6 month transition time was provided, and the internet as we know it did not fall over in a flaming pile. ( One could argue it was ALREADY a flaming pile, but that's a different discussion.) Why are we so twisted up because this time they are providing a guarantee for TWICE as much transition time? Have things changed so much since 2015 that a full year is not enough time all of a sudden? On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 11:35 PM William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:52 PM Wes Hardaker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > William Herrin <[email protected]> writes: > > > At some point, somebody's going to want to do something with the old > > > /24. > > > > You are correct that we did not state we will or will not be returning > > the address block we have back to ARIN. We do not plan on returning it > > for precisely the reasons you've specified. Even if we were going to, > > we would certainly stop responding on it for a long time first. And > > even if we returned it, I suspect that ARIN itself would consider > > carefully what to do with a returned address in the critical > > infrastructure block. > > Hi Wes, > > Due respect, you should have a better fleshed-out commitment to the > community than, "Here today, gone tomorrow. Probably not. Maybe." Not > to put words in your mouth, but try something like, "We will continue > serving root DNS requests from the old address indefinitely. We will > notify the community of any change in that disposition at least 1 year > prior to the change and will describe, at that time, what will > change." > > Don't say, "We'll keep it up for as long as we feel like it, but at > least a year." That's crap. > > > TL;DR: we agree and it's covered. > > Say the words. THEN we agree that it's covered. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William Herrin > [email protected] > https://bill.herrin.us/ >
