Re: v6 gluelessness

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:29:51PM +0100,
 Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com> wrote 
 a message of 17 lines which said:

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

So it adds a very small amount of work (and maintained state) for the
DNS resolvers. Not a big deal.

> 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.

Currently, with the present ICANN procedures, this is not an
option. ICANN knows only the TLD managers, not the nameserver
managers. For ICANN, rip.psg.com depends on the TLD it serves, not on
Randy Bush. (It would be a sensible model, but a different model, with
different actors.)