Re: [registrars] Registrar Constituency Agenda -- New Delhi Meeting

[Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michel Machado wrote:
>    Isn't it possible to just use EPP's pool for it?
Well, yes, however as has been mentioned, this implies that the notice 
can be delivered in-band to the registrar (epp client),
with arbitrary delay by the registrar (epp client), by the registry (epp 
server), using a queue.
What you'd like is the notice mechanism I proposed for the protocol back 
when we were still in the draft-provreg-epp-mumble-xx.txt
stage, however, to have registry-initiated instances of communication 
such as "your hair is on fire", we'd have to make
the event model of the protocol symmetric.

If we did that, we could use EPP to irritate each other, as in, I need 
to sell a widget I'm not a widget-registrar for, so I need
a one transaction deal with a widget-accredited registrar who can EPP 
(or whatever) to the widget registry.
Verisign won that one, so until there is agreement that we should do 
epp-bis, that is, do some fixing, I suggest getting some
sort of agreement on a payload, which could be some nicely parsable xml 
and some operator-readable structured text,
and use SMTP as transport.

Eric