The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Moving A6 to Historic Status' (draft-jiang-a6-to-historic-00.txt) as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ralph Droms. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-a6-to-historic/ Technical Summary This document provides a summary of issues and discusses the current usage status of A6 DNS records and moves the A6 specifications to Historic status, providing clarity to implementers and operators. Working Group Summary No major issues raised. Document was discussed on the DNSEXT list, but the chairs considered that the WG already had too many other unfinished items so this document is being processed as AD-sponsored. Document Quality The document itself is clear. The whole point is that the feature is not deployed and is not considered useful. Personnel Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com> is the Sponsoring and Responsible AD. RFC Editor Note Please make the following editorial changes prior to publication: Change the Abstract: OLD: This document provides a summary of issues and discusses the current usage status of A6 DNS records and moves the A6 specifications to Historic status, providing clarity to implementers and operators. NEW: This document provides a summary of issues and discusses the current usage status of A6 DNS records and moves the RFC 2874 to Historic status, providing clarity to implementers and operators. Change the last paragraph of Section 1: OLD: deployment, this document moves the A6 specifications to Historic status, thereby clarifying that implementers and operators should represent IPv6 addresses in the DNS only by using AAAA records. NEW: deployment, this document moves RFC 2874 [RFC2874] to Historic status, thereby clarifying that implementers and operators should represent IPv6 addresses in the DNS only by using AAAA records. Change Section 6: OLD: IANA is requested to change the annotation of the A6 RR type from "Experimental" to "Obsolete" in the DNS Parameters registry. NEW: IANA is requested to change the annotation of the A6 RR type (code 38) from "Experimental" to "Obsolete" in the DNS Parameters registry. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
