6bone.net now active

[RLFink@lbl.gov (Bob Fink)]

Erich,

At 3:15 AM -0700 5/15/97, Erich Meier wrote:
>> I'm pleased to report that we now have the domain name 6bone.net registered:
>
>Cool!
>
>> At this point I would encourage anyone with an idea of what to use this
>> domain for to send their ideas to the list.
>
>As I mentioned earlier, I would enter the border routers of every IPv6 site
>into the 6bone.net zone with the short site name (e.g. "fauern.6bone.net" or
>"join.6bone.net" or "cisco.6bone.net" - I think you get the idea ;-). That
>would make traceroutes much easier to understand.

This might be a lot of work.  I do think all backbone border routers (and
maybe the transits as well) could be named like this.

As we are trying to emulate a real network, maybe we should treat the
"leaf" sites as the users and thus not part of the 6bone.net domain.


Opinions anyone?


Thanks,

Bob