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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.
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