[Chapter-delegates] Ripe Launches IPv6ActNow + Proposal for Next Generation Domain Name Services

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Two interesting pieces of news:

Ripe launches www.IPv6ActNow.org , thus taking a more active role in pushing for IPv6. Hurray!

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/ipv6-wg/2009/msg00010.html

I guess that other RIRs are likely to follow suit. Better late than never!


In other news, something a little more "lugubrious", namely a proposal to make use of the "class" of address to distribute Domain Name Services:

http://www.net4d.org/DOCS/WSISForum09-InfraClasses-V0.1.pdf

In my opinion, this opens the door to malware, spammers, domain thieves, etc. since it introduces complexity of classes in addition to domains, top level domains and other whatnot. 
Of course, the counter-argument is one of a full "semantic web". Trouble is, the more layers you add to the addressing and access model, the easier will be to hack and manipulate that model. Another can of worms indeed... as if there wasn't already enough to deal with.

I'd be interested in hearing what our in-house experts think of this.

Olivier

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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