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To: Michael Graff <Michael_Graff@isc.org>
Cc: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:49:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: EPP statuses and other questions

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:32:44PM +0000,
 Michael Graff <Michael_Graff@isc.org> wrote 
 a message of 55 lines which said:

> (1)  A handle (like FOO1-ISC) is not self-describing.  Is that a contact
>      handle, a domain handle, or what?

I see it a a "registry policy" issue. Some will have a global
namespace for handles (with the risks you explain) and some will have
separate namespaces for contacts and hosts.

> (2)  Part of the handle namespace is client-chosen, part is registry-chosen.
>      On contacts, the local (and thus the global) identifiers are chosen
>      by the registrant, 

Which is bad, IMHO. It may require several round-trips before the
registrar (<pc>the client</pc>) finds a free handle. Why is there no
provision for registry-generated contact handles? (Or should we assume
the ROID will have this role?)


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