I agree with Dan. Unless someone can show explicit harm to a third party by putting them in the global DNS, there is no reason to even discuss their presence or absence in the global DNS.
Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan > Lanciani > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Response to AD comments on draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr- > 03.txt > > Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> |=> At least you and I agree FWIW :) > |> |Perhaps I missed this discussion, but I can't see > |> |why they should be put in the global DNS. > |> > |> One might want to build an overlay network where consenting sites know > |> how > |> to reach each other by constructing dynamic tunnels based on some (yet > |> to > |> be defined) mapping function. Thus the addresses may well be > |> reachable in > |> some sense. > | > |But is this reason enough to have them in the global DNS tree. > > Certainly. If they are in the global DNS then the overlay network can be > handled entirely by routers (or even stub hosts) that know how to look up > the > mapping and create the tunnels. This is the approach I intend to use if > unique > addresses become a reality. If the addresses are not allowed in the > global DNS > then multi-faced or multi-rooted DNS (or worse) hacks are required to > allow > applications to see the addresses in the first place. > > I strongly object to restricting unique addresses from the global DNS. It > seriously compromises their utility and it does nothing to make anyone's > life easier. Applications must already deal with the case of addresses > that > are not reachable because of filters. There is no reason to single these > addresses out for second-class treatment. > > Dan Lanciani > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
