[LACNIC/Politicas] Fwd: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?

[marcelo bagnulo braun]

Hola,

en RIPE se esta discutiendo este tema,
alguna opinion al respecto para nuestra region?

Saludos, marcelo


Inicio mensaje reenviado:

> De: Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>
> Fecha: 20 de julio de 2004 13:54:03 GMT+02:00
> Para: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
> Asunto: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] 9/9/2006 : ip6.int shutdown?
>
> Hi,
>
> As e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa has finally been delegated and works as of today I
> want to propose the end-day for ip6.int.
>
> ip6.int has been deprecated in favor of ip6.arpa for almost 3 years
> already (RFC3152 dates August 2001) thus it is time to clean up the
> mess. Vendors have been able to update their stacks for almost 3 years,
> ip6.arpa has been deployed on production (read RIR) IPv6 space already
> for quite some time too. Thus now, with 6bone also having a working
> ip6.arpa tree this seems to be a perfect opportunity to start shutting
> down ip6.int.
>
> At the moment only Cisco IOS and Windows XP don't have ip6.arpa 
> support,
> but IOS has been addressed (they say) and Windows XP will be fixed with
> SP2 due out per August. As neither of these are server OS's this 
> doesn't
> pose much of a problem anyway. People using IPv6 need to keep their
> systems up-to-date anyways.
>
> I propose that RIPE, and actually any other RIR, stops any delegations
> for ip6.int per 9/9/2006. Which is more than 3 years after the RFC has
> been released.
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>