Re: Launch Phase EPP Extension Version 02 Posted

On 16/08/2012 16:09, Wil Tan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Gould, James <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     I agree that we should predefine as many known statuses as possible
>     in the draft as an enumerated list.  How about if we take the
>     approach of the launch phases with the inclusion of a "custom"
>     status and an optional name attribute that can be used for define a
>     sub-status of one of the enumerated statuses or used to define a
>     completely custom status?  We can expand the enumerated list now for
>     auction statuses if those statuses are known.  Trung, do you have
>     any specific statuses that should be added now?  Would this meet the
>     needs of a predefined list of statuses with some form of extensibility?
> 
> 
> Just as a data point, these were the statuses that Cloud Registry used
> when we last did our sunrise and land rush auctions. They were certainly
> adequate for us. Also, while not technically elegant, I suspect we can
> satisfy the majority of use cases by conveying fine-grained statuses
> with <launch:status> textual content:
> 
>   <launch:status s="validated">auction in-progress</launch:status>

Wouldn't this effectively be another free text element that servers will
overload with their own special meanings? If anything that appears
inside that element requires client processing, registrars will be in
the same situation as I previously described.

G.

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