draft-wullink-restful-epp-00.txt

Hello,

[I've cross posted this also to [email protected]]

SIDN, being the registry for .nl, employs EPP as the primary interface for
registrars to submit or manipulate domain names. Even though the protocol is
working quite well, at SIDN Labs we believed there was room for improvement.

Experience over the years revealed certain operational shortcomings in EPP,
mainly related to the stateful nature of the protocol:

* EPP may pose challenges in load-balanced environments, when a active session
  has to be switched from one EPP server to another and state is kept on a per
  server basis.

* EPP sessions can wind up in a state where they are no longer linked to an
  active TCP connection. This may raise problems in situations where session
  limits are enforced.

Our draft http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-wullink-restful-epp-00.txt
aims to solve these issues, by proposing a RESTful EPP interface.

The Abstract reads:

       This document specifies a 'RESTful interface for EPP' (REPP) with the    
       aim to improve efficiency and interoperability of EPP systems.           

       This document includes a new EPP Protocol Extension as well as a mapping 
       of [RFC5730] XML-commands to an HTTP based (RESTful) interface. Existing 
       semantics and mappings as defined in [RFC5731], [RFC5732] and [RFC5733]  
       are largely retained and reusable in RESTful EPP.                        

       With REPP, no session is created on the EPP server. Each request from    
       client to server will contain all of the information necessary to        
       understand the request. The server will close the connection after each  
       HTTP request.                                                            

As the provreg WG is dormant, we have submitted our draft as an individual
submission.

Since the provreg mailinglist is still very much alive, we are kindly requesting
its subscribers to provide us with feedback on our proposal.

Kind regards,

--

 Miek Gieben
 SIDN Labs

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