[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] IPv6 access to K-root

On 2-aug-04, at 21:50, Jon Lawrence wrote:

>> it was discussed already, that it depends not on RIR, but on ICANN. 
>> When
>> these guys will finish tests&checks, we will get that game to our 
>> painful
>> collection.

> and I suppose the question is when are ICANN actually going to get 
> around to
> it. They seem to have waited long enough to add some ccTLD AAAA 
> records, but to me that seems kind of pointless without the root 
> containing AAAA's.

I'm not so much concerned about how long this step took for exactly the 
reason you mention: there is little advantage in having TLD AAAA glue 
records (you say ccTLDs, what about the gTLDs then??) without the same 
for the root itself.

What I _am_ worried about is the way they presented this fairly small 
step as a huge deal. As I wrote on my website: "One small step for 
mankind... but a huge step for ICANN." (With the announcement pretty 
much on the 35th anniversary of the moon landing and all.)

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1:28:10)