[address-policy-wg] IPv6 access to K-root

On 25-feb-05, at 0:02, Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> The real problem is DNS deployment
> in v6. v4 has 11 (14 by June) of our servers, spread world-wide; I'd
> like to do the same with v6 servers, but I simply can't.

> Every f***ing registry on the planet has the special assignment policy
> (with very strict rules, mind you), except for the one they always
> send me back to ("sorry, not our business, you're in the RIPE region").

Well, there are more than a hundred TLDs and if they all want 11 IPv6 
prefixes that would inflate the v6 table by more than 150%.

I think a reasonable proposal from a good portion of the TLD community 
would go a long way, though.

>> Of course the underlying question returns to "how to do IPv6 
>> multihoming
>> for A Special End Site".

Everyone thinks they're special. That's how you get large routing 
tables.

(It's not _that_ long ago that the root servers got their addresses 
from the organizations that hosted them.)

> Is everybody busy waiting for the IETF v6-multihoming group to come
> to a conclusion?

In that case you won't have to wait much longer as this is going to 
happen within a few weeks. However, the multi6 mechanisms (that still 
have to be developed) aren't very suitable for multihoming DNS service.