Re: v6 gluelessness

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:08:54AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> Bill,
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:52 AM, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> >     its been this way since at least 2003, when there was an effort
> >     to get som servers changed, when ICANN first allowed AAAA records
> >     into the root zone.  Some requests are over four years old. :(
>
> The oldest root management request IANA has in its queue is about 1  
> year old and is unrelated to glue policy.  The oldest glue related  
> request (adding a AAAA to f.root-servers.net) is 10 months old and  
> will be processed (along with the 3 other outstanding root server  
> requests) on/around 4 Feb after the ICANN board mandated public  
> notification period.
>
> If you have reason to believe there are older outstanding requests,  
> please let me know (preferably privately as I would imagine this isn't  
> particularly in the charter of NANOG's mailing list).


        ah... a bit of digging shows that the IANA (prior to your
        tenure) closed the request for unspecified reasons.  I suspect
        that it was due to the then unstated policy that ccTLD holders
        control the glue of the nameservers publishing their data.

--bill

> Thanks,
> -drc