[101856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 gluelessness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Campbell)
Sat Jan 19 17:54:52 2008
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:52:32 +0100 (CET)
From: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B8E7553A-AA31-4E91-A480-CC26FC16BFE7@virtualized.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, David Conrad wrote:
> Randy,
>
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> but, in actual fact, this does not change the ccTLD's zone file or date one
>> bit. the request is to add a AAAA RR to the existing A RR *for my server*
>> in the root zone to act as glue.
>
> The key term here is "root zone". As you are undoubtedly aware, there are
> those who treat the contents of the root zone (including glue) as sanctified
> ground that may only be tread upon after a ritual purification, sacrifice of
> numerous virgin chickens, etc. Or something like that.
>> the iana publishes data about one of *my* servers. these data have become
>> erroneous by omission. i am merely asking that they be fixed.
>
> Understood. And current policy requires IANA to get explicit agreement from
> the AC and TC that they approve that fix (even though they are not directly
> responsible). As much as I might wish otherwise, IANA (in the layer 9 world
> it occupies) can't unilaterally change that policy.
Once you realise that layer-9 issues are the sticking factor, you quickly
go the route of setting up different, ccTLD-specific names for your
nameserver to ensure that future changes require just 3 parties, you as
technical contact, the ccTLD admin as admin contact, and IANA.
It beats 3+N parties being involved, where N is the number of ccTLDs that
you have secondaried, plus it also eases future migration when you have a
secondaried ccTLD being the next hot thing in query rates.
Or you could hope that whoever processes your request at IANA doesn't
check for how many ccTLDs your nameserver has ;).
--
Bruce.
eg, ns-XX.ripe.net where XX is the ccTLD code.
