On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote:
> 3. Set a target date for the removal of those TLDs for 10 years in the > future > Because this worked for IPv6? > Obviously there are various implementation details for effecting the move, > but application-layer stuff will be as obvious to most readers as it is > off-topic for this list. > In this case, it's all about the "application-layer stuff" - that'd be the stuff to fail hard - mainframe IP gateways, control systems, Lotus, Domino, etc. BIND is fine. Even most of the PHP apps would (should, maybe) be fine. But that's not runs most of the gov. > Regarding the time period in #3, decommissioning a TLD is harder than you > might think, and we have plenty of extant examples of others that have taken > longer, and/or haven't finished yet *cough*su*cough*. > Do we really have any prior examples that are even .1 the size of the usgov public system? Again, I'm not just referring to BIND and Windows DNS (and probably some Netware 4 etc stuff) - this would be web, soap parsers, email systems, vpn, and all of their clients (public, contractor, and gov). Anything close to what y'all are talking about?
