RE: registries, XML & EPP (again)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Klaus Malorny
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:09 PM
> To: Edward Lewis
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ietf-provreg] registries, XML & EPP (again)

[snip]

> Sorry to say that, but in the beginning of the provreg 
> working group Scott and 
> others of the gTLD faction were just too confined to the 
> Verisign model and 
> fully ignored the ccTLDs, their needs and their models. IMHO 
> this discouraged 
> many ccTLDs from participating. EPP is indeed "extensible", 
> but in some aspects 
> just not at all.

I still really resent statements like this because no one "fully
ignored" anybody's needs.  I know that I and others took great pains to
try to boil down the defined structures to essential minimums as issues
were brought to the group's attention, pushing as much TLD-specific
stuff as possible off for local definition.  That means that "local
policy" things needed by individual registries are up to them to
specify.

I firmly believe that any attempt to specify an "out of the box" domain
registration protocol that included all of the features needed by every
TLD registry would have failed miserably.

-Scott-