New Document available: RIPE-233

I would agree that having them in on single block could
make for certain types of capture problems.

Thus having the RIR assign a "random" block to a root
server would be a good thing.  As long as it doesn't mandate
a renumber of the server should it re-locate.

john brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lir-wg at ripe.net 
> [mailto:owner-lir-wg at ripe.net]On Behalf Of
> Joao Luis Silva Damas
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:00 AM
> To: David Kessens
> Cc: ipv6-wg at ripe.net; lir-wg at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: New Document available: RIPE-233
> 
> 
> At 13:29 -0700 28/5/02, David Kessens wrote:
> >
> >I agree. In addition, just like we asked the registries to use a
> >single block of addresses worldwide for exchange points, 
> it seems to
> >make sense to do the same thing (but a different block!) 
> for rootname
> >servers. Would it not be possible to coordinate such a 
> block with the
> >other RIRs ?!?
> 
> Actually I think it makes much more operational sense to *not* put 
> all the root name servers in one block.
> 
> Joao