[regext] Re: RESTful EPP Charter side meeting Thursday 13:00

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

I've attended the meetings since Prague but am not an EPP person. Permit me 
to offer a different perspective, based on what you've been saying about 
the other topics of discussion.

When you've talked about EPP during those meetings, you talked about the 
data model, the commands, but you hardly ever mentioned XML. XML didn't 
sound like a core part of the EPP that exists in your minds. I heard many 
arguments against or in favour of one proposal or another, but noone stood 
up and the mike to say "because … XML", see? XML seems about as central as 
TCP.

On this view, REPP might be called an unanticipated extension. If the data 
model and commands don't change at all, then this isn't the kind of 
extension that 5730-3 define, but it does extend that which you talk about 
as being EPP.

On the other hand, if the data model or commands do change… so I suggest 
that a separate WG makes sense if and only if REPP is permitted to change 
the data model or commands.

Arnt