Re: Questions about containers

[Daniel Manley <dmanley@tucows.com>]

Hi,

I'm reposting this since I haven't seen a reply yet.  If I missed the 
reply somehow, could someone please send it to me or repost it to the list?

Many thanks,
Dan

Daniel Manley wrote:

> Eric,
>
> First, thanks for the drafts.
>
> k, I have some questions and possibly corrections as well:
>
> 1) XRP is mentioned twice without introduction.  Is this leftover from 
> the XRP drafts?
>
> 2) Do containers and their relations to other objects preclude the 
> associations defined in the EPP domain draft?
>
> 3) The registrant -- that is simply a contact right.  I might have 
> missed it but I don't think it explicitly says that.
>
> 4) Can you explain the difference between child objects and linked 
> objects?  That wasn't completely clear to me.
>
> 5) The container delete description specifies that the authInfo must 
> be provided.  This isn't right is it?
>
> 6) In container delete, what is the difference between using the none 
> and the break option?  Taking no action on related objects implicitly 
> breaks their association with the deleted container right?
>
> 7) The following paragraph states that a container should not be 
> deleted if it is associated with other known objects.  Is that really 
> saying that containers can't be delete as long as they have a parent?  
> The way it is worded there, I couldn't help but try to extrapolate a 
> meaning with the previous option element (none, delete, break).  But 
> maybe that's just the way I interpreted it.
>
> 8) How does a registrar know which templates exist in the registry? 
> Will that information be provided out-of-band in contracts or notices 
> from the registry?
>
> 9) Referring to the diagram example in the draft, if a registrar 
> associated a domain to Container 3, would that domain have Host 1 
> (from Container 1) and Host 2 in it's DNS records?
>
> I might forward more questions as I study the document a little more.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Dan
>
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