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

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On Feb 25, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Jon Lawrence wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2005 23:36, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> On 25-feb-05, at 0:02, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
>> Everyone thinks they're special. That's how you get large routing
>> tables.
>
> yep - I'm special :). But the roots are more special.
> I want multihoming, until then v6 will NOT go mainstream.
> However, the roots really are a special case - There's no reason (at 
> least
> none I can think of) why all the root's in the world couldn't be 
> hosted out
> of a single /48, or rather a /48 for each region - which would avoid my
> nightmare of a single entity being able to control major internet 
> resources.

Which single entity? And what would a single /48 give you? The above 
makes no sense to me. I think you need to add more text.

>>> 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.
>
> Be interesting to see what they come back with.
> How can multihoming be suitable to one kind of service and not another 
> - I'll
> wait 'til they publish they're docs, you can explain then Iljitsch :) 
> (unless
> we're talking locators again).

Documents are published. Protocol work will be done in new WG. 
Architecture published. Multi6 is closing in two weeks. Yes, there will 
be identifiers and locators.

- - kurtis -

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