Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It did occur to me that the domain name sellers are in a better > position to give out these prefixes than the traditional IP address > registries, though. Especially if you consider that they'd just be > selling domain names under c.f.ip6.arpa. :-)
The same thought occurred to me several months ago; the draft even references the .org registry -- not an RIR -- as a model of how the allocating authority could be structured. Also, thinking of this in a domain mindset caused me to rethink whether local addresses should be in the global DNS. I can understand the arguments against it, but as the draft says, there's no harm. Given the (expected) sparse population of FC00::/8, the only reason anyone is likely to go looking for a PTR record is if they received a packet from that prefix -- meaning they probably have a legitimate reason to know who sent it. A specific example would be two private sites, such as business partners, that use their local addresses to communicate; these sites should be able to resolve each others' addresses without mucking around with every DNS server to list "special" zones that aren't in the global DNS. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
