[regext] draft-ietf-regext-epp-fees: add feature to inquire balance and credit limit?

["Thomas Corte (TANGO support)" <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

some of our registrars keep asking for a feature to simply inquire their
current account balance and credit limit via EPP.

As far as I can tell, even the latest fee extension draft
("draft-ietf-regext-epp-fees-16") only supports the retrieval of this
information in the response to a *transform* command, but not e.g. in a
check response.

This isn't ideal since the registrar should not be forced to send a
"dummy" sequence of billable commands (e.g., a domain create/delete or
transfer request/cancel sequence) only to get this information.
Also, even if the registrar would store the values from the most recent
"non-dummy" transform response, they could become obsolete quickly due to
intermittent automatic renewals, or account top-up deposits.

What's the opinion in this group regarding the addition of an inquiry
feature, e.g. by adding a flag to the <domain:check> command fee
extension, which could trigger the inclusion of the balance/limit in the
<domain:check> fee response extension?

Best regards,

Thomas Corte

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