RE: Pending Update

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

Hong,

There's a somewhat analogous situation related to creating domain names in
that sometimes the object really shouldn't be instantiated until after some
manual process determines that the domain is "valid".  Right now the specs
include a domain status of "pendingVerification" to note that a domain
object create command has been processed, but the action hasn't yet really
be completed.

As for the discussion requested below, I think it might be helpful to add a
response code that says something like "Command completed successfully;
action pending".  We have to separate command completion from back-end
processing such that we maintain the OLTP ACID properties (basically that
commands have no partial success or partial failure), so we need to note
that the command has been received and processed but that something else
needs to happen before some back-end stuff completes.  We could also add a
"pendingVerification" status to the host mapping to note the situation in
subsequent <info> command responses.

I'm not going to touch the documents again until we get some feedback from
the IESG, but adding a new response code and a new host status could well be
done when dealing with IESG comments.

-Scott- 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liu, Hong [mailto:Hong.Liu@neustar.biz]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:53 PM
> To: 'ietf-provreg@cafax.se'
> Subject: Pending Update
> 
> 
> The current update operation defined in EPP is basically a 
> two step process:
> First, an update request is made by the registrar to the 
> registry. Second,
> the registry either rejects the request or performs the 
> operation; and a
> response is sent back to the registrar.
> 
> A pending update refers to a four step process: First, an 
> update request is
> made by the registrar to the registry. Second, the registry 
> acknowledges the
> request to the registrar but does not take action for the 
> moment, i.e., the
> update is pending. Third, upon further authorization, the 
> registry either
> rejects the request or performs the operation; then posts the 
> result to the
> message queue. Fourth, the registrar polls the message queue 
> to retrieve the
> result of the operation.
> 
> Conceptually, pending update is very similar to the transfer operation
> currently defined in EPP.
> 
> I would like to hear from the list how such operation is 
> supported by EPP.
> If this topic has been discussed before on the mailing list, I would
> appreciate pointers to the previous discussions.
>