Re: Proposal: A standard EPP OT&E test suite for each object type and extension type
Wil Tan <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Klaus Malorny <[email protected]>wrote: > On 16/06/11 18:25, Keith Gaughan wrote: > >> Hello, all. >> >> [...] 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. >> >> > Hi, > > as a side note, I'd like to express that accreditation tests that require > registrars to perform certain operations on a test system in a certain order > with certain parameters is IMHO completely useless and a waste of (human) > resources. As soon as a registrar starts to write a custom script to perform > the test instead of simply trying to let his registration system interact > with the registry's system, the proof loses its value. And to my experience, > this happens in most of the cases. For this reason, we as a registry > operator are trying to convince the TLD sponsor not to demand the execution > of a technical accreditation test by the registrar at all. > > Concur. We see no value in it and don't require it on our registry system either. -- Wil Tan CTO Cloud Registry <http://www.cloudregistry.net> _______________________________________________ provreg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/provreg