Re: DNSEXT WGLC: IPv6 Name Auto Registration

[Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>]

Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@enst-bretagne.fr> writes:

>  In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
>    This document is on experimental track and is available via following URL:
>    http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsext-ipv6-name-auto-reg-00.txt
>    
> => I support this document.

I don't. 

I think this is a really bad idea that would be much better solved by
a combination of DHCPv6 and dynamic updates. Either the v6 devices
need cuddly infrastructure to be happy (that's called DHCP) or they
don't (that's called ad-hoc networking). As far as I understand
arguments have been in favour of supporting the latter and then it
seems a rather bad idea to start reinventing the support services of
the infrastructure that was rejected in the first place.

Furthermore, since:

> This document defines a mechanism to register IPv6 auto
> configuration in DNS.  This document does not change the DNS
> protocol in any way or add new requirements for DNS servers or
> resolvers.

I don't really see what it is doing in DNSEXT. 

But, of course, it is likely that I have not really understood this
and that I'm just acting in the tradition of being mistaken ;-)

Johan Ihrén
Autonomica


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