Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-08.txt

[Margaret Wasserman <margaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:27:50AM -0500, Brian Haberman wrote:
> >  I agree that it is a problem, but not one specific to ULAs.
>
> Indeed, it's the dont-publish-unreachables's draft space... but that one
> never reached consensus or thus publication.

Right.  And, while I personally agree with the 
don't-publish-unreachables concept, it has been a controversial one 
one in the DNS community.  It is not fair to use the ULA document as 
a path to standardization of that concept, when we don't know if  the 
people who objected to its publication in other fora are involved 
here.

The whole question of how/if to handle local addressing in the DNS is 
a hairy one, and one that it isn't the IPv6 WG's job to solve.

This document has already been reviewed by the IESG, and there is one 
discuss outstanding (from Ted Hardie).  So, we need to be 
conservative at this point regarding what (if any) changes we make to 
the document.  If we make substantial technical changes, the document 
will at least have to return to IETF LC and be re-reviewed by the 
IESG.  We cannot, in good conscience slip in controversial DNS 
wording into the document at this point in the process.

Margaret


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