Proposal: A standard EPP OT&E test suite for each object type and extension type

Hello, all.

This is the first in a series of suggestions from a registrar's point of view
improvements that can be made to and around EPP to make the life of registrars
easier. Consider them food for thought if nothing else.

A standard EPP test suite from OT&E would, I think, serve two important
purposes. Firstly, it would be an immense help to registrar who are
developing their domain management systems for the first time as not all of
us use Net::DRI for Perl or EPP-RTK for Java and C++. Ours, for instance, is
written in a combination of Python and PHP. Secondly, it would mean that
registrars would only need to run through the test suite *once*, which would
greatly reduce the management overhead for both registrars and registries
during accreditation. A central registry, likely maintained by ICANN, listing
whether a registrar has successfully completed a particular part of the test
suite, would also be useful.

If ICANN does, in fact, sanction the creation of a large number of new gTLDs,
this could be a big deal.

-- 
Keith Gaughan, Software Developer
PGP/GPG key ID: 3E896381
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. <http://blacknight.com/>
12A Barrowside Business Park, Carlow, Ireland
Registered in Ireland, Company No.: 370845
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