RFC 3152 (rfc3152) - Page 2 of 4


Delegation of IP6



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RFC 3152                 Delegation of IP6.ARPA              August 2001


3. IANA Considerations

   This memo requests that the IANA delegate the IP6.ARPA domain
   following instructions to be provided by the IAB.  Names within this
   zone are to be further delegated to the regional IP registries in
   accordance with the delegation of IPv6 address space to those
   registries.  The names allocated should be hierarchic in accordance
   with the address space assignment.

4. Security Considerations

   While DNS spoofing of address to name mapping has been exploited in
   IPv4, delegation of the IP6.ARPA zone creates no new threats to the
   security of the internet.

5. References

   [RFC 1886]   Thomson, S. and C. Huitema, "DNS Extensions to support IP
               version 6", RFC 1886, December 1995.

   [RFC 2553]   Gilligan, R., Thomson, S., Bound, J. and W. Stevens,
               "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6", RFC 2553,
               March 1999.

   [RFC 2766]   Tsirtsis, G. and P. Srisuresh, "Network Address
               Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)", RFC 2766,
               February 2000.

   [RFC 2772]   Rockell, R. and R. Fink, "6Bone Backbone Routing
               Guidelines", RFC 2772, February 2000.

   [RFC 2874]   Crawford, M. and C. Huitema, "DNS Extensions to Support
               IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering", RFC 2874, July
               2001.

   [RFC 2916]   Faltstrom, P., "E.164 number and DNS", RFC 2916,
               September 2000.

   [RFC 3026]   Blane, R., "Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM", RFC 3026,
               January 2001.











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