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Yesterday's presentations by Alex Le Heux, João Damas and Gert Döring inspired an interesting discussion on IPv6 deployment issues. The session transcript has been published on the main meeting web site and a video archive of the discussion will be made available for download some time next week. Here are some key points from the discussion:

• About one third of TLDs already have IPv6 active for at least one of their nameservers

There should be an XXX domain. All related websites should be moved to that domain. This should keep non people out of the area because of security and other features.

Notes: the simplest stuff

Some people harbor the expectation that Registerfly will be put out of business by a Revoked RAA situation from ICANN. The actual facts are more likely that they will have to remove the ICANN STAMP, and strictly act as a name affilliate/reseller, as they did when they first started that company. Registerfly could continue operations after March 31st, likley buying domains through TUCOWS or some equivalent that they have a working API for.

I've created a flickr set of my photos from the Lisbon meeting. I'll be updating the set as I post them.

The URL is: http://flickr.com/photos/joi/sets/72157600025557388/

Please let me know if you've got other photo sets of the meeting.

This is a brief note to all that staff from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are attending the ICANN meetings in Lisbon, and are very happy to meet with any of IANA's customers to discuss particular requests or questions they may have.

Welcome all to the 28th International ICANN meeting. After traveling 24 hours from Los Angeles to Lisbon, I am happy to be here. Lisbon looks like a nice place. I will post more often as the meeting gets underway.

If the number of uniquely numbered network interfaces connected to the Internet continues to grow at the rate we've been seeing for the last few years the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted and a new address space will be required. That address space is IPv6 and the RIRs have been allocating it to ISPs since 1999.

Although the 6bone IPv6 testbed network was officially closed on 6 June 2006, deployment of IPv6 on production networks is not yet widespread.

I think absolutely data escrow is something that needs serious scrutiny. As much as I hate to say it, too much trust is being instilled in registrars to safeguard their data - as we can see in the case of RegisterFly. As part of their troubleshooting process they lost several weeks of data.