[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] ICANN Board to implement IPv6 in root servers

On 30-mei-04, at 15:09, Tim Chown wrote:

>> If the whole chain is IPv6-capable that means you no longer have to
>> depend on v4 connectivity to reach v6 sites. Eventually we'll want to
>> switch off v4 because of the support costs, of course. But in the mean
>> time this means better protection against connectivity problems.

> At the moment the first link in the chain is not solved (local 
> resolver...),
> as the only options today are manual configuration or DHCPv6, for which
> there are very few implementations.

Don't remind me.  :-(

Unfortunately there is a group within the IETF that wants to force us 
all to use DHCPv6 for this, and they're blocking everything else. I've 
recently asked for two 6bone pTLAs to do some expermimenting with well 
known anycast DNS resolvers but unfortunately the 6bone people don't 
want to give out any new 6bone prefixes since january first.

I don't want to use RIR space for an experiment because it's likely the 
associated address space won't be usable for something else for a long 
time after that, so if anyone has a 6bone pTLA lying around that they 
don't use anymore, I'd be much obliged...

Iljitsch