[dns-operations] Putting IPv6 glue into the root (was Enabling the IPv6-only Internet: the Final TLDs)

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 20:45:21 UTC 2015


On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:32 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> Err, wait. I thought we were talking about TLDs and adding IPv6 glue to the root.
>
> The registrar (so to speak) in such cases is IANA and I can assure you, IANA supports IPv6 and adding IPv6 RRs are not appreciably more difficult than adding IPv4 RRs.

Yep, my reasoning is that if a similar IPv6 add-change-delete is more
difficult than an IPv4 address, for a magnitudes larger audience of
domains handled by registrars, I can only imagine that it's not easy
on a smaller scale for the TLDs.

-Jim P.



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