Re: [regext] RDAP questions

[Andrew Newton <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> 2) entity handles
>>>
>>> At least for DNRs the mixture of registrars and contacts seems to be
>>a
>>> bit unfortunate at first glance.
>>> For handles (in the DNR / RFC5733 sense) could conflict between
>>> registrars and contacts. Furthermore there is no (apparent) way to
>>> output a ROID which would make it easier to distinguish these two,
>>> disregarding the role of course.
>>> I could work around this by requiring a -ROIDSFX for contacts and
>>none
>>> for registrars, for example.
>>>
>>> So i think my question is how to respond to a non-search query for an
>>> ambiguous entity?
>>
>>I'm not sure I understand this. You have two entities with the same
>>handle?
>
> Yes. I think in EPP they are unambiguous.
>
> thanks,

So my reading of RFC 5730 doesn't say if ROIDs are unique within a
registry or unique within a namespace. I do have to admit I don't
understand how section 2.8 fits into it. Hopefully somebody more
authoritative can shed some light (I'm looking at you, Scott :) ).

That said, if the entity is truly unique but serves different roles,
then the ROID is good enough. If not, then you can create your own
namespace in the id.

Does that help? Because I still only have a tenuous grasp of the issue.

-andy