Re: [provreg] RFC 5733: street changes with contact:update

[Klaus Malorny <[e-mail]>]

On 14.11.2013 19:48, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> I don’t know how one can make a case that sub-element replacement is acceptable.
> Section 3.2.5 of RFC 5733 says this (emphasis mine):
>
> “The EPP <update> command provides a transform operation that allows a client to
> modify the attributes of a contact _/object/_.”
>
> and this:
>
> “An OPTIONAL <contact:chg> element that contains _/object attribute values to be
> changed/_.”
>
> The <update> is thus focused on _/changing/_ the attributes of the _/object/_.
> In the example Klaus provided, the command received is “replace the existing
> <contact:postalInfo> attribute with a new instance of <contact:postalInfo>”. The
> server failed to replace the two <street> elements with the single element
> provided in the <update>. It shouldn’t work that way.
>
> Scott
>

Hi Scot, Seth,

up to now I regarded the name, the organization and the the whole address block 
as the replacable units, derived from the associated XML schema. It namely 
contains two datatypes, "postalInfoType" for the create command and 
"chgPostalInfoType" for the update command. The first contains the <name> and 
<addr> elements as mandatory elements, the latter contains them as optional 
elements. If one would consider the postalInfo itself as the replacable unit, it 
would not make sense to enforce the name and address on <create>, but would 
allow to remove them with a following <update> request.

So simply asked: What does the following schema-wise legal request do?

<contact:update xmlns:contact="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:contact-1.0">
   <contact:id>C20131114-01</contact:id>
   <contact:chg>
     <contact:postalInfo type="int"/>
   </contact:chg>
</contact:update>

Does it clear the international contact? Does it leave the international postal 
data simply unchanged (aside from being illegal in Scot's view to submit a 
command that is effectively non-modifying). Does the following command

<contact:update xmlns:contact="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:contact-1.0">
   <contact:id>C20131114-01</contact:id>
   <contact:chg>
     <contact:postalInfo type="int">
       <contact:org>ACME Solutions</contact:org>
     </contact:postalInfo>
   </contact:chg>
</contact:update>

modify the postal info so that it *solely* contains the organization and nothing 
else afterwards?

Regards,

Klaus