Comments on the following summary would be most welcome.
Joe
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 at the 16th APNIC Open Policy Meeting in
Seoul, a DNS Operations SIG meeting was held.
George Michaelson of APNIC presented a modified version of his proposal
to clean up lame delegations from APNIC-controlled zones under
IN-ADDR.ARPA. Some discussion followed on the details of how
notification of lame delegations might be implemented prior to
delegations being removed, and also about whether it was desirable that
disabled delegations might leave a child zone delegated to a single
nameserver. Attendees of the meeting were asked whether there were any
objections in principle to APNIC running a trial based on George's
proposal; there were no objections.
Randy Bush of IIJ made a presentation which outlined challenges and
issues with the delegation of zones from 2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to operators
of the corresponding IPv4 addresses. This presentation follows an
earlier request to the IANA to make the corresponding higher-level
delegations to the RIRs (see draft-ymbk-6to4-arpa-delegation-00.txt).
The discussion that followed was mainly concerned with the low demand
for corresponding delegations under ip6.int.
Geoff Huston presented a strawman proposal to delegate zones under
2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa using an automated method which involved requests for
delegation being made interactively from clients over IPv6, from source
addresses within address blocks corresponding to the delegations being
requested. The discussion which followed emphasised the perception in
the room that utilisation of 6to4 addresses was not widespread, and the
corresponding demand for delegations under 2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa was
probably therefore low. An ad-hoc manual delegation process through
existing APNIC support channels might make more sense than an automated
system.
No additional issues or topics for discussion were raised. The meeting
lasted about an hour.
