perhaps your answer can be found in the first line of Barbaras message. let me quote it: "> On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses > of the four root servers whose operators have requested it. " .... for the four root servers whose operators have REQUESTED it. (emphasis added) e.g. the other operators have not requested AAAA records be added for their servers. --bill On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:18:41PM -0800, Jeffrey A. Williams wrote: > Barbara and all, > > Why only 4 root servers? > > Regards, > > Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) > "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - > Abraham Lincoln > > "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is > very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt > > "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; > liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by > P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." > United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] > =============================================================== > Updated 1/26/04 > CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. > div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. > ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail > jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > My Phone: 214-244-4827 > > Barbara Roseman wrote: > > > apologies for cross-posting... > > > > On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses > > of the four root servers whose operators have requested it. A > > technical analysis of inserting IPv6 records into the root has been > > done by a joint working group of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory > > Committee and Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a report of > > which can be found at http://www.icann.org/committees/security/ > > sac018.pdf. Network operators should take whatever steps they feel > > appropriate to prepare for the inclusion of AAAA records in response > > to root queries. > > > > More information will be posted to the IANA web site during January. > > > > Regards, > > > > Barbara Roseman > > IANA General OperationsManager > > ICANN > > _______________________________________________ > > apnic-talk mailing list > > apnic-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-talk _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf