[101985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 gluelessness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Jan 22 03:59:31 2008
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080121130228.GB32611@nic.fr>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:29:51 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 21 jan 2008, at 14:02, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> and please tell me why any of the tech and admin pocs of these
>> cctlds should give a <bleep> what my server's actual ip address is.
> Going back to operational issue (yes, incredible as it may seems, I
> won't write here what I think of ICANN), there is a *technical*
> solution to this issue, which is the one deployed by the
> RIPE-NCC. Give a different *name* (and may be a different *IP
> address*) to every ccTLD.
This is suboptimal because it limits the opportunity for nameservers
to measure RTTs and contact the fastest server.
TLD operators should make up their mind: either control their servers,
or trust the people that they gave control to to make these kinds of
decisions.
