Re: ROID how useful?
Francisco Obispo <[email protected]>
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Hi Christopher, On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]> wrote: > Any time the "natural" key is unique, there is little need for roids as references. > +1 > In contrast, roids or some equivalent will prove necessary whenever the natural key is NOT unique. > Exactly, but in case of domain names, contact ids, and host names, they all have natural keys. > The scenario of that which leaps to mind is in respect to sunrise periods, where there may be multiple applications for domains. If there is need to revise an application, during sunrise, for a domain, a roid would make a decent unique reference. Also, that offers a way to get WHOIS to return data about a sunrise application. I agree, in this case, we're not treating requests during the sunrise period as 'domains', we're just treating them as requests, which will go through or not to become registry objects 'after' a decision has been made by registry policy. So: yes, it is useful, but not necessarily part of the EPP protocol per se. > > The server trid of the application would also be a credible "unique" candidate, though less natural for the WHOIS part. > +1 Francisco Obispo Director of Applications and Services - ISC email: [email protected] Phone: +1 650 423 1374 || INOC-DBA *3557* NOC PGP KeyID = B38DB1BE _______________________________________________ provreg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/provreg