[dns-wg] Re: IPv6 glue AAAA RRs in the root zone

Hi Geoffrey & all,
 
 On 21 Jul, Geoffrey Sisson wrote:
 | Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> writes:
 | 
 | > Do note that the IPv6 server of ".fr", requested in February 2003, is
 | > still not announced.
 | 
 | Maybe only coincidence:
 | 
 | 	JPNIC = ccNSO member
 | 	KRNIC = ccNSO member
 | 	AFNIC = ccNSO non-member
 | 


==> There's definitely no connection. I won't dwell on politics
issues. Please let me give you some technical explanations for the
delay (since .fr glue was published a few hours later than .jp and
.kr).

The .fr glue ought to be published at the same time as .jp and .kr
glue. The delay is only due to the change of ns3.nic.fr name into
c.nic.fr (with th same A and AAAA RRs) in the NS list for .fr. The
main reason is that ns3.nic.fr already hosts about 19 other TLDs and
publishing the AAAA RR for .fr implies publishing it also for the
other TLDs for consistency reasons. So, AFNIC had two choices :

1) to ask all the admin & tech contacts of all those TLDs for their
   agreement for AAAA publication
2) to perform that change ns3.nic.fr --> c.nic.fr on July 20th

==> The 1st choice would have taken several days (or weeks)

The second choice took us less than 12 hours (including
a.root-servers.net reload delay). This choice is a preparation for fr
NS compression to be done soon as specified at section 6 of
http://w6.nic.fr/dnsv6/resp-size.html (note that document was yet
another technical one to persuade ICANN/IANA to go forward with IPv6
AAAA glue).


Regards,

Mohsen.