Re: [regext] WGLC: draft-ietf-regext-org-02

[Patrick Mevzek <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, May 30, 2018, at 22:24, Antoin Verschuren wrote:
> I remember a CENTR meeting where ccTLD’s tried to get consensus over if 
> we could harmonize EPP extensions so registrars would not have to code 
> differently for every TLD.
> This was before EPPEXT existed.
> We all thought this would be a good idea.
> But half the registries concluded that they wanted to stick to their own 
> extensions because they felt local legislation or their local 
> constituencies required them so, and the other half had the standpoint 
> that they would only implement as followers, after extensions would be 
> standardized.

I have thought for a long time about EPP standardization and I came into conclusion that if consolidation does not happen it is for reasons outside of the technical realm. Hence my belief no technical solutions would change any of it.

> This was not only TLD registries that had an opinion, 
> and I remember some hesitation especially by ICANN registrars as well 
> because they didn't want extra work, but third party dns-operators, 
> ICANN related policy makers, RIR’s, registrants and plain IETF protocol 
> guardians also have an equal voice in the IETF process, even though they 
> don’t implement.

While every voice is welcome at the table, I still like and favor the idea of "running code". Besides rough consensus which you are all saying we have, so let us go forward on this topic and standardize this extension that so many actors want or agree to.

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  Patrick Mevzek