Re: EPP Document Updates

At 16:28 -0400 7/19/05, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>I can say for sure that we have found some pending states convenient
>for some cases.  It's particularly useful in ccTLDs, where there can
>be an elaborate process review prior to a domain really being
>created or updated or whatever.  You don't want to hold up the
>protocol while you determine whether (for instance) a registrant has
>the rights to a domain in that geographic region.  (One can think
>what one wants about the utility of such policies; but it does seem
>to be the policy in some places.)

Pending states are definitely useful.  I don't think anyone wants to 
remove them from the protocol.

You are right (in text I removed) that preventing other actions while 
in pendingDelete is questionable.  That's what we ought to seek to 
change.

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