Re: lastVerified: optional vs. extension

[Hong Liu <lhongsms@yahoo.com>]

Ed,

Questions for clarification regarding whose opinion
counts:
- when you said users of EPP clients, do you mean
registrars/resellers?
- when you said users of EPP servers, do you mean
registries?
- when you said implementors, do you mean third party
EPP software vendors?
- how about other people who do not fall into one of
the above three categories, but are also concerned
about this topic, such as regulartory agencies? The
verification can be done via a third party other than
the registry and its registrars.

Also, questions for clarification on the metric:
- are technical issues such as simplicity, continuity,
and legacy data migrations key considerations?
- is lack of established policy framework for the use
of this element a key consideration?

Thanks!

--Hong

--- Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net> wrote:
> Here's my metric:
> 
> Make it optional if
> 1) Everyone that will want to use it will do so in
> the same way and 
> can agree on the syntax.
> 2) Everyone will want to be able to make use of it
> at some point - 
> even if not regularly.
> 3) It's worth making a change to the core documents
> for this.
> 
> Make it an extension if
> 1) Not everyone agrees on what is should look like
> or how it should be used.
> 2) Not everyone will want the ability to make use of
> it.
> Note that there is no #3 (would have been - it can
> be an extension 
> after the core specs are at PS).  I won't say this
> because I refuse 
> to consider extensions to a protocol that hasn't hit
> PS yet.
> 
> Everyone means 'all users of EPP clients, all users
> of EPP servers.' 
> Implementer's opinions don't count here - except to
> argue over my 
> choice of metrics.  Implementer's can report what
> they hear users 
> saying.
> 
> The question isn't the goodness nor evilness of
> last-verified.  It's 
> whether it is vital to the protocol.
> 
> PS - I refuse to poll the list.  That's voting and I
> won't stand for it.
> PPS - I don't have a preference, I'm a chair.
> -- 
>
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