IP6.INT Phaseout Plan

   To deprecate usage of IP6.INT tree for reverse DNS and enable smooth
   transition to IP6.ARPA a process with 3 milestones is proposed:


   Milestone 1. Stop creating new and modifying existing delegations in
                IP6.INT tree.
   
   Starting from January 1, 2005 new delegations SHOULD NOT be created and
   existing resource records will be modified. This applies to the
   IP6.INT zone itself as well as to all child zones down the tree.

   Creation of new delegations in IP6.INT zone for 6bone address space was
   effectively stopped on January 1, 2004 as no new pseudo TLA's can be
   allocated according to the 6bone phaseout plan [RFC3701]. For the address
   space allocated to the RIRs by IANA it means that new allocations will not
   be reflected in the IP6.INT zone. 
 
   These measures will inevitably degrade the quality of delegations in
   IP6.INT tree, gradually increasing pressure for developers and
   administrators to migrate to use of IP6.ARPA as the only reverse
   delegation tree.



   Milestone 2. Remove all existing delegations from the IP6.INT tree.

   Starting from June 6, 2006, all delegations will be deleted from the
   IP6.INT zone and its child zones down the tree. This will effectively
   obsolete IP6.INT reverse delegation tree.

  
   Milestone 3. Remove IP6 delegation from the "INT" gTLD.

   Recommend to the IETF to direct IANA to remove the delegation of the
   obsolete "IP6" child zone from the "INT" gTLD. Since Milestone 2 effectively
   obsoletes IP6.INT zone this can be done at the same time, on June 6,
   2006.