[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
> Jeroen Massar
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:54 AM
> To: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa has finally been delegated and works as of today I
> want to propose the end-day for ip6.int.
> 
> ip6.int has been deprecated in favor of ip6.arpa for almost 3 years
> already (RFC3152 dates August 2001) thus it is time to clean up the
> mess. Vendors have been able to update their stacks for almost 3 years,
> ip6.arpa has been deployed on production (read RIR) IPv6 space already
> for quite some time too. Thus now, with 6bone also having a working
> ip6.arpa tree this seems to be a perfect opportunity to start shutting
> down ip6.int.
> 
> At the moment only Cisco IOS and Windows XP don't have ip6.arpa support,
> but IOS has been addressed (they say) and Windows XP will be fixed with
> SP2 due out per August. As neither of these are server OS's this doesn't
> pose much of a problem anyway. People using IPv6 need to keep their
> systems up-to-date anyways.
> 
> I propose that RIPE, and actually any other RIR, stops any delegations
> for ip6.int per 9/9/2006. Which is more than 3 years after the RFC has
> been released.
> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen