On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:08:54AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> Bill,
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > its been this way since at least 2003, when there was an effort
> > to get som servers changed, when ICANN first allowed AAAA records
> > into the root zone. Some requests are over four years old. :(
>
> The oldest root management request IANA has in its queue is about 1
> year old and is unrelated to glue policy. The oldest glue related
> request (adding a AAAA to f.root-servers.net) is 10 months old and
> will be processed (along with the 3 other outstanding root server
> requests) on/around 4 Feb after the ICANN board mandated public
> notification period.
>
> If you have reason to believe there are older outstanding requests,
> please let me know (preferably privately as I would imagine this isn't
> particularly in the charter of NANOG's mailing list).
ah... a bit of digging shows that the IANA (prior to your
tenure) closed the request for unspecified reasons. I suspect
that it was due to the then unstated policy that ccTLD holders
control the glue of the nameservers publishing their data.
--bill
>
> Thanks,
> -drc
