[151685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Mar 28 14:56:38 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F735CAC.2010700@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:55:35 -0700
To: carlos@lacnic.net
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
> I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but, c'mon. For a provisioning
> system, an AAAA record is just a fragging string, just like any other
> DNS record. How difficult to support can it be ?
Of course it is more than a string. It requires touching code, =
(hopefully) testing that code, deploying it, training customer support =
staff to answer questions, updating documentation, etc. Presumably =
Netsol did the cost/benefit analysis and decided the potential increase =
in revenue generated by the vast hordes of people demanding IPv6 (or the =
potential lost in revenue as the vast hordes transfer away) didn't =
justify the expense. Simple business decision.
Regards,
-drc
