Re: v6 gluelessness

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On 21 jan 2008, at 14:02, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> > and please tell me why any of the tech and admin pocs of these
> > cctlds should give a <bleep> what my server's actual ip address is.

> Going back to operational issue (yes, incredible as it may seems, I
> won't write here what I think of ICANN), there is a *technical*
> solution to this issue, which is the one deployed by the
> RIPE-NCC. Give a different *name* (and may be a different *IP
> address*) to every ccTLD.

This is suboptimal because it limits the opportunity for nameservers  
to measure RTTs and contact the fastest server.

TLD operators should make up their mind: either control their servers,  
or trust the people that they gave control to to make these kinds of  
decisions.