Re: [eppext] FW: [IANA #814918] INSERT “Extensible Provisioning Protocol Mapping: Suggestion"

Hello,

I've stumbled upon something, maybe irrelevant, maybe interesting in
general for the WG.

The PDF quoted has a "Version 1.4" in preamble with also a nice summary
at beginning with differences for each version.
However the namespace is 
http://www.verisign-grs.com/epp/suggestion-1.1

Does that mean that the document changed without a change in namespace
version?
Or that the 1.1 namespace version was published after version 1.4 of the
document?

To be more generic, if not done already, shouldn't the WG eventually
give some guidance to authors and/or mandate a change of namespace
version when documentation does change? With some related issues:
- what for simple bugfixes or erratas?
- what if the server/client behaves in practice differently from what
  was documented?
- also, should the WG discuss how to handle transitions from one
  version to another?
I'm aware of specific cases in the past, like for example a switch
from one version to another where the server was allowing either one,
of course with different capabilities…
(this also creates the problem of namespace in polling messages… what
is they are retrieved by registrar long after the fact, hence the
namespace does not exist anymore or if the registrar did not choose
the given namespace at login, should he still get it in its polling
message?)

Hollenbeck, Scott <shollenbeck@verisign.com> 2015-03-23 19:05
> Submitted for DE evaluation.
> 
> Scott
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [IANA #814918] INSERT “Extensible Provisioning Protocol Mapping: Suggestion"
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> -----BEGIN FORM-----
> Name of Extension:
> “Extensible Provisioning Protocol Mapping: Suggestion"
> 
> Document Status: 
> Informational
> 
> Reference: 
> http://www.verisigninc.com/assets/epp-sdk/EPP-Suggestion-Mapping.pdf
> 
> Registrant Name and Email Address:
> VeriSign Inc., epp-registry@verisign.com
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> 
> Status: Active
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> Notes: None
> -----END FORM-----
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