RE: "External" hosts in EPP

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asbjorn.rrp@theglobalname.org
> [mailto:asbjorn.rrp@theglobalname.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 4:59 AM
> To: shollenbeck@verisign.com
> Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> Subject: RE: "External" hosts in EPP
> 
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I agree that creating objects without the registrars 
> knowledge is perhaps not a very good idea. :-)
> 
> I don't have a problem with doing it as you describe. Are 
> people here happy with that? What if we in the <transfer> 
> command give the user the option whether to copy necessary 
> host objects or not, and the default behaviour is not copying 
> the host objects and potentially fail the transfer.

Doesn't giving an option to copy the hosts put us right into the same
situation where host objects can get created without the client explicitly
creating them?  I _really_ think it's safer for the client to create
whatever hosts it needs before doing the transfer, and failing the transfer
request if a needed host hasn't been created.  It's an extra step up front,
but it avoids other notification and synchronization steps post-transfer.

-Scott-