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

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On 2004-07-22, at 10.55, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 22-jul-04, at 9:58, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
>
>>> But indeed, if there is concensus or not 9/9/2004 and ip6.int is gone
>>> for me.
>
>> I vote for 9/9/2004 and getting rid of it properly. Maintaining two
>> reverse threes will create more problems than it will solve.
>
> Blame the IAB. Apparently, they were the ones who created this mess by 
> frivolously adopting ip6.arpa as a replacement for ip6.int. It 
> staggers the mind that otherwise smart people can make decisions like 
> this.
>
> In Dutch we have a saying "those who burn their buttocks must sit on 
> the blisters" (= if you do something stupid you have to suffer the 
> consequences).

"Two wrongs doesn't make a right". :-)

I don't know why we ended up in .int to start with. But I guess there 
is a story behind that, that someone will tell me real soon now(tm). 
:-)

Still, there is no merit to have two trees and we have known this 
change would come for a long time. And now that even IANA seems to be 
"IPv6 capable" we should just move on.

- - kurtis -

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