Re: [ietf-provreg] a new core command...?

[James Gould <jgould@verisign.com>]

Eugenio,

We have not had a need to support a bulk form of query in EPP.  This had
come up several times, but we kept the EPP protocol strictly a provisioning
protocol and left the bulk information up to reports.  I know that a bulk
query would be a real problem for a Registry like COM/NET.


JG 

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> From: Eugenio Pinto <eugenio.pinto@fccn.pt>
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:02:36 +0100
> To: <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
> Subject: [ietf-provreg] a new core command...?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't know if this subject was already discussed in the past, in the
> provreg-wg, but I need some opinions about it.
> 
> As a Provisioning Protocol I'm wondering if it shouldn't be there
> another query command besides <check>, <info> and <transfer> that would
> allow us to retrieve all the objects actually provisioned by a repository.
> 
> In DNS.PT we needed a command with such functionality in order to
> retrieve all the domains owned/managed by the current logged user and we
> needed to do an extension.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> Is it reasonable to include such a command in the core protocol?
> 
> We have two nearly candidates for that goal:
> 
> 1 - The EPP <check> command which is used to determine if an object can
> be provisioned within a repository.
> 
> 2 - The EPP <info> command which is used to retrieve information associated
> with an existing object.
> 
> The problem is that the commands above are designed to check well
> identified objects each time. If we are not looking for a specific
> object we get nothing...
> 
> As Andrew Sullivan and Frederico Neves already did, I'm working on an
> I-D detailing some of the DNS.PT experiences with implementation. This
> extension will be there.
> 
> Once I've completed this, I'll be sure to forward it here.
> 
> Waiting for feed-back,
> 
> Eugenio Pinto
> FCCN - DNS.PT
>