RE: Command Recovery

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bason, Chris [mailto:cbason@verisign.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:59 AM
>To: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
>Subject: RE: Command Recovery
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>We could avoid requiring client trid uniqueness by making
>a status command that provided additional options for the
>query. For example, if a registrar needed to perform a status
>command for a specific client trid, they could also pass
>in the operation that was being performed (e.g. CREATE, UPDATE,
>etc.) and the date that the command was transmitted.
>
>The registry would then have 4 attributes to check for the
>possible client trid being requested: registrar Id, operation, 
>transaction date and client trid. If multiple rows were found 
>for this combination then the status command would return a 
>multi-row result set. It would then be up to the registrar to
>process the result set returned to determine whether the transaction
>they are looking for was processed.

This seems like a reasonable way to provide the functionality without
significantly burdening either server or client.  Does anyone disagree?

<Scott/>