Re: RE: draft-hollenbeck-epp-rgp-01.txt comments/proposal

I also prefer required zero value for RGP situations. Such behavior would
improve interoperatibility of RGP implementations.

Janusz Sienkiewicz


"Hollenbeck, Scott" wrote:

> > The wording for <renew> command in rgp draft document could
> > be modified to
> > indicate that the absence of period element in <renew> part
> > or value ZERO
> > should indicate that renewal should not be a part of rgp
> > restore. Another
> > option would be to force server to ignore the value of
> > <period> element and
> > assume certain value.
>
> I've thought about the zero value being appropriate here.  It's certainly an
> approach.
> > > If people are already doing RGP as an extended renewal,
> > what are they doing
> > > about the renewal part of the command?
> >
> > I am aware of one implementation that just ignores the value
> > of <period>
> > element and assumes ZERO if rgp extension is present.
>
> Oooh, accepting a non-zero value and ignoring it isn't a very good idea.
> That would make data reconciliation very difficult in the future if one
> tries to reconcile a non-zero-period <renew> command that was processed
> without error, but with no change to the expiration date.  I'd rather
> require a period of zero for RGP situations.

>
>
> -Scott-