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Re: [ietf-provreg] Re: EPP domain:transfer
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:46:20PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > What's the purpose of this? Intellectual exercice? Standards are > supposed to make life *simpler*. If you need a lot of work to fit your > business rules into the standard, then it is not worth it. I don't see how the last sentence follows from the preceding one. Standards are supposed to make _everyone's_ life (i.e. considered as a complete set) simpler. That might mean that some people's lives actually get slightly harder. That's part of the trade-off in standards development, it seems to me. > EPP is a bad standard because it is not possible, giving the variety > of registration rules, to have a standard which is both standard > (meaning reuse of software) and sufficient. A claim of impossibility is pretty strong. It might be that people don't think it's worth it; but I find it awful hard to believe that it's impossible. I know that Afilias has at least managed to accommodate some variety of registration rules inside the standard. A -- ---- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias Canada Toronto, Ontario Canada <andrew@ca.afilias.info> M2P 2A8 +1 416 646 3304 x4110