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Klaus Malorny <Klaus.Malorny@knipp.de>
Date:
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:36:17 +0100
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Subject:
Re: [ietf-provreg] Anyone working on 4310-bis?
On 04/11/09 16:21, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> 7. Clarity around the corner case of a client attempting to add and remove >> the same dsData or keyData in a single command. This must result in an >> error from the server. > > Why? In the mainline EPP specification, if you remove and add the > same name servers in a single command, it doesn't cause an error. (I > know this because misguided registrars used to do it all the time in > an effort to get the "primary" name server "listed first".) It's a > waste of bandwidth, but since EPP is idempotent it should have no > effect, right? > Hi Andrew, I am quite sure that RFC 5731 and its predecessors do not define how to handle this case and that the problem is left as an exercise to the implementor. As I regard this as a flaw in the protocol, I would appreciate a statement in 4310bis regarding such a state. Klaus -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- List run by majordomo software. For (Un-)subscription and similar details send "help" to ietf-provreg-request@cafax.se