Re: [ietf-provreg] RFC3731: domain:roid in <info> response

[Andrew Sullivan <andrew@ca.afilias.info>]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:27:10PM +0200, Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i just noticed that the "roid" element in the response to a <domain:info>
> request is a mandatory element. However, it seems that the "roid" is not
> required in any other requests on domain objects, because all other
> transactions use the <domain:name> to identify a certain object instance.

It might be useful to clients over time, though: a domain name need
not be unique over time (whereas the roid is defined in such a way
that it ought to be).  When the record is current, of course, the
sponsor could know what the roid is (because they had it originally,
and the object hasn't been removed from the repository).  But it is
undoubtedly extremely useful for retrospective co-ordination for
client and server operators to be able to refer to different objects
of the same name by unique ids.  

Of course, that's not a terribly strong reason for a mandatory
requirement.

A

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