[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently no one."

[Mark Elkins]

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 16:51 -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> writes:
> 
> > so i am gonna sit here and sulk and whine loud and long until the iana 
> > and opensrs/tucows fix it. :)
> 
> Amen.  I want @!$^@%$ v6 glue for my nameservers to go with my v6
> hostnames.  This is not rocket science.
> 
> d75:~ rs$ dig +short seastrom.com. mx
> 10 valhalla.seastrom.com.
> d75:~ rs$ dig +short valhalla.seastrom.com. aaaa
> 2610:178:1:1:203:47ff:fe94:2c10
> d75:~ rs$ dig +short seastrom.com. ns
> asgard.seastrom.com.
> alfheim.seastrom.com.
> bifrost.seastrom.com.
> d75:~ rs$ dig +short asgard.seastrom.com. aaaa
> d75:~ rs$ dig +short bifrost.seastrom.com. aaaa
> d75:~ rs$ dig +short alfheim.seastrom.com. aaaa
> d75:~ rs$ 
> 
> This is holding up progress.  Elliott, Ross, are you guys with the
> program or do I need to find a new registrar and tell all my friends
> to do the same?

As CO.ZA (Commercial, South Africa) has added the facility for adding
IPv6 glue (without excluding IPv4 at the same time!), doing all the same
checks over IPv6 transport for IPv6 nameservers in the same way checks
are done to IPv4 nameservers, I see no reason that other registry
systems can not do the same.

I agree - like (dual-stack) access to content, registries need to be
both IPv6 accessible and able to deal with both IPv4 and IPv6 glue.

(One issue left is its 2001:43f8:30::/48 address is only 87% visible -
according to www.sixxs.net tools.. - but thats another problem)
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