Re: Result Codes (Re: Standard Extensions)

"Ucom.ch - Bernie Hoeneisen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.provreg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Wil Tan wrote:

> I wonder if there's any value in some of us getting together to author
> an informational draft documenting existing behaviours surrounding the
> use of result codes. Specifically, we could list the error conditions
> and the corresponding result codes that are returned by servers "in
> the wild". This would help future implementers, both from a client's
> and server's perspective, to at least not diverge further.
> Furthermore, it would perhaps become apparent if an extension is
> needed.

This certainly helps, but does not solve the basic issue, which I'd call a 
flaw in the main EPP specs. Those specify a limited set of status codes, 
restricted by XML schema. Any _clean_ extension would require a change in 
a rather core EPP XML schema, which nobody likes to touch (for good 
reasons).

At next revision of EPP core specs, that affected XML shemata should be 
relaxed to allow any 4 digit code as status code. Along with this, 
guidelines should be defined for registration of additional status codes 
with IANA (e.g. Expert Review policy).

Comments?

cheers,
  Bernie

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