All,

AusRegistry's back-end Registry system has been designed with full
support for IPv6 addresses in "glue" records.  However, to date
AusRegistry has received no requests for this functionality.  Thus, to
minimize confusion, the choice was made to disable IPv6 support in the
front-end system.

Due to the demand we have received recently, we will enable support for
IPv6 addresses during our next scheduled outage.

In terms of Registry infrastructure (Name Servers and WhoIs Servers)
being reachable through IPv6, AusRegistry is in the process of obtaining
an IPv6 address space from APNIC to use on our equipment. However, at
this point in time, the secondary servers hosted at other providers will
not be required to have IPv6 support, and this is left to the discretion
of those providers.

Chris Wright
Chief Technology Officer
AusRegistry Pty Ltd
Level 6, 10 Queens Rd
Melbourne, Australia, 3004
Phone: 61 3 9866 3710
Fax: 61 3 9866 1970
Mobile: 61 401 873 798

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Finn [mailto:sean§teknol.com.au] 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:03 AM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: RE: [DNS] IPv6 glue supported?

This interests me too.

Does anyone have any IPv6 Info for .au ?

SOme overseas Governments are mandating that any government Computing
aquisitions be IPv6 ready, and some are even turning IPv6 on by late
2004 /
early 05.
It's 2003 now, so we have around a bout a year before IPv6 starts
getting
used more widely on the net.

I personally think it's time that we're able to point a *.au to an IPv6
Address, or at least have some rudimentary system in place that will
soften
the forced transition when it does take place.

Anand: One point to note.

Ausregistry is the "Registry";

All Registrars are downstream from the Registry, so Ausregistry would
have
to support IPv6 before Any registrar could / would.

Anyone know if Ausregistry has plans?

-Sean.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anand Kumria [mailto:wildfire§progsoc.uts.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:43 AM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] IPv6 glue supported?


Hi all,

I've been unable to find out if AusRegistry and/or other registrars
support the addition of IPv6 glue in the .au namespace.

I know that Versign and (some) of their resellers support it for the
top-level .com domains so it is probably supported in the registry to
registrar protocol.

Does anyone know the situation in .au?

Thanks,
Anand

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