Bill-

Don't say, "We'll keep it up for as long as we feel like it, but at
least a year." That's crap.

30% of the root servers have been renumbered in the last 25 years.

h : 2015

d: 2013

l : 2007

j : 2002

For these 4 cases, only a 6 month transition time was provided, and the internet as we know it did not fall over in a flaming pile. ( One could argue it was ALREADY a flaming pile, but that's a different discussion.)

Why are we so twisted up because this time they are providing a guarantee for TWICE as much transition time? Have things changed so much since 2015 that a full year is not enough time all of a sudden?

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 11:35 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:52 PM Wes Hardaker <wjhns61@hardakers.net> wrote:
> William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> writes:
> > At some point, somebody's going to want to do something with the old
> > /24.
>
> You are correct that we did not state we will or will not be returning
> the address block we have back to ARIN. We do not plan on returning it
> for precisely the reasons you've specified. Even if we were going to,
> we would certainly stop responding on it for a long time first. And
> even if we returned it, I suspect that ARIN itself would consider
> carefully what to do with a returned address in the critical
> infrastructure block.

Hi Wes,

Due respect, you should have a better fleshed-out commitment to the
community than, "Here today, gone tomorrow. Probably not. Maybe." Not
to put words in your mouth, but try something like, "We will continue
serving root DNS requests from the old address indefinitely. We will
notify the community of any change in that disposition at least 1 year
prior to the change and will describe, at that time, what will
change."

Don't say, "We'll keep it up for as long as we feel like it, but at
least a year." That's crap.

> TL;DR: we agree and it's covered.

Say the words. THEN we agree that it's covered.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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