Re: Has the EPP world really changed?

Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:50:07PM +0200, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> The problem with this kind of thinking is that we COULD in the IETF
> have accepted the same story for SIP, SMTP and XMPP. We did not. 

Those seem like pretty poor analogues of EPP to me.  In all those
cases, the basic idea is that the parties to the protocol need not
have a pre-existing relationship with each other.  They _can_ be used
to initiate contact.

The same is not true of EPP, which relies fundamentally on the idea
that there is some sort of contractual relationship outside the
protocol.  That relationship can be used to exchange information about
the relevant extensions in use.

I'm not willing to argue this too hard, but there is a practical
difference here.

Best,

A

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