[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2004 IP6.INT Removal (Was: 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?)

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	Andrei,


> IP6.INT Phaseout Plan
>
>    To deprecate usage of IP6.INT tree for reverse DNS and enable smooth
>    transition to IP6.ARPA a process with 3 milestones is proposed:
>
>
>    Milestone 1. Stop creating new and modifying existing delegations in
>                 IP6.INT tree.
>
>    Starting from January 1, 2005 new delegations SHOULD NOT be created 
> and
>    existing resource records will be modified. This applies to the
>    IP6.INT zone itself as well as to all child zones down the tree.

I can see that removing the ip6.int delegation by 9/9/2004 would be 
considered agressive. But continuing to populating something that has 
been deprecated for another 6 months after there is an alternative 
doesn't make sense to me. I would assume this date to be ASAP.

>    Milestone 2. Remove all existing delegations from the IP6.INT tree.
>
>    Starting from June 6, 2006, all delegations will be deleted from the
>    IP6.INT zone and its child zones down the tree. This will 
> effectively
>    obsolete IP6.INT reverse delegation tree.
>
>
>    Milestone 3. Remove IP6 delegation from the "INT" gTLD.
>
>    Recommend to the IETF to direct IANA to remove the delegation of the
>    obsolete "IP6" child zone from the "INT" gTLD. Since Milestone 2 
> effectively
>    obsoletes IP6.INT zone this can be done at the same time, on June 6,
>    2006.

While 9/9/2004 might be optimistic, just as Iljitsch points out, we 
will not have a RFC by then, June 6th 2006 seems to far away for me. 
End of the year or mid 2005 by the latest seems more realistic.

- - kurtis -

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