[131368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Oct 22 13:16:14 2010
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:13:28 -0400
To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
In-Reply-To: <4CC1B25B.2050504@dcrocker.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On October 22, 2010 at 08:48 dhc2@dcrocker.net (Dave CROCKER) wrote:
>
> On 10/21/2010 1:56 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> > Well, if the DNS root servers ceased IPv4 service it'd be pretty much
> > a fait accompli as far as the public internet is concerned.
>
>
> Given the reality of fragmenting the DNS -- including its root -- that's an
> action that well might backfire. Current fragmentation is constrained; this
> could plausibly motivate more people to pursue other paths and thereby blow
> things up.
>
I wouldn't suggest doing it without A LOT of coordination with
stakeholders.
While we're on the subject, someone else suggested that one source of
authority would be the Tier-1 vendors, the other would be governments.
Tying the two sub-threads together I believe there's sufficient
authority vested in the DNS management and RIRs to accomplish a
transition to an, effectively, all-IPv6 internet without either of the
above leading tho they would have to follow of course.
--
-Barry Shein
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