Re: [Crisp] Clarification for error situations needed

Marcos Sanz/Denic <sanz@denic.de> Mon, 29 May 2006 07:46 UTC

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Andy,

> No matter what, there should be no hard and fast rule here.  Clients 
> MUST be able to handle all of these errors, and which one a server 
> returns depends on how much the server operator wishes to obfuscate the 
> identifiers of their data.  For instance, an operator may decided to 
> return <nameNotFound> so that the user thinks that registry type does 
> exist but they just got the name wrong.

This is a very wise statement. Maybe the futility I was talking about is a 
feature, not a bug.

For consistency reasons, we'll go for <queryNotSupported>.

Regards,
Marcos

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