Re: v6 gluelessness

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Date: Sat Jan 19 2008 - 18:50:13 EST

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    On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:08:54AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
    > Bill,
    >
    > On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:52 AM, wrote:
    > > its been this way since at least 2003, when there was an effort
    > > to get som servers changed, when ICANN first allowed AAAA records
    > > into the root zone. Some requests are over four years old. :(
    >
    > The oldest root management request IANA has in its queue is about 1
    > year old and is unrelated to glue policy. The oldest glue related
    > request (adding a AAAA to f.root-servers.net) is 10 months old and
    > will be processed (along with the 3 other outstanding root server
    > requests) on/around 4 Feb after the ICANN board mandated public
    > notification period.
    >
    > If you have reason to believe there are older outstanding requests,
    > please let me know (preferably privately as I would imagine this isn't
    > particularly in the charter of NANOG's mailing list).

            ah... a bit of digging shows that the IANA (prior to your
            tenure) closed the request for unspecified reasons. I suspect
            that it was due to the then unstated policy that ccTLD holders
            control the glue of the nameservers publishing their data.

    --bill

    >
    > Thanks,
    > -drc


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