[101804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 gluelessness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy Lynch)
Fri Jan 18 17:18:26 2008
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:35:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Lucy Lynch <llynch@civil-tongue.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
cc: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4791121A.1010703@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> It's the same process that is used to update a delegation in the root zone.
>> For ccTLDs I believe there's some kind of web portal to allow such changes
>> to be requested, but my experience is that the old text form also still
>> works just fine.
>
> i actually spent 20 minutes on the iana web site. admittedly that was far to
> little time to navigate and appreciate the plethora of papers and
> declarations on this and that. i finally sent off an email, but have no
> response, yet. i have hope, as the team there now is pretty good. it's
> probably just my lack of talent at navigating that much layer >= 9 paper.
> they need a link on the entry page saying "old ops folk go here."
>
>> I've done this a number of times over the past few years and have not had
>> any problems.
>
> send url.
how about a pdf and a txt link?
get: http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-template.txt
modify and mail to: root-mgmt@iana.org
as per:
http://beta.iana.org/about/presentations/sarras-dubai-procedures-061120.pdf
>> I don't know what the process is for getting IPv6 addresses associated with
>> host records in the VGRS COM/NET registry, but it seems like good
>> information to share here if you find a definitive answer.
>
> i will. i am trying to document ops processes for v6 in my feeble way, doing
> it in a blog-like fashion. e.g. for the sage of doing it at one small set of
> servers see <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/ipv6-westin.html>. more clues would be
> appreciated. i am hoping all this will seem trite and passe in six months or
> so.
>
> but if we can not find a way to get AAAA glue added to gTLDs such as the com
> zone, we have a *serious* impediment to v6 deployment that needs to be fixed
> quickly.
>
> randy
>
