On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:33:54PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>
> --On Monday, 31 December, 2007 10:05 -0800 Barbara Roseman
> <barbara.roseman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6
> > addresses of the four root servers whose operators have
> > requested it.
> >...
>
> While I _strongly_ favor this move, it is often, if not always,
> useful to examine the applications that use the DNS as well as
> effects on the DNS itself.
{ SMTP/MX interaction described }
> Again, there is no specific root server issue in any of this,
> but it concerns me that none of the relevant committees or
> studies appear to have considered the possible applications
> implications of the change.
>
> regards,
> john
actually, there was on at least two occasions the explicit
scoping of the consideration to the DNS-specific issues.
interactions with other applications was ruled out of scope
regarding the issues of adding what is effectively a new
address family to the DNS. The general answer when needing
to communicate between similar applications that run on
different address families has traditionally been the application
layer gateway (ALG) ...
--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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