[regext] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-regext-rdap-object-tag-04: (with DISCUSS)

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

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DISCUSS:
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This is a fine document, but I have one possible issue that I would like to
quickly discuss before recommending approval of this document:

Looking at the example in Section 3:

   {
     "version": "1.0",
     "publication": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ",
     "description": "RDAP service provider bootstrap values",
     "services": [
       [
         ["YYYY"],

Values like YYYY are not distinguishable from TLD values registered in
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/rdap-dns/rdap-dns.xhtml>. All numeric values
(ASNs or ranges of ASNs), as well as IPv4/IPv6 addresses are syntactically
distinguishable from TLDs, but values registered in this document are not. Is
this a problem? My concern is about fetching JSON from 
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/rdap-dns/rdap-dns.xhtml> and misinterpreting
it as valid data from the registry established in this document or vice versa.

         [
           "https://example.com/rdap/"
         ]
       ],
       [
         ["ZZ54"],
         [
           "http://rdap.example.org/"
         ]
       ],
       [
         ["1754"],
         [
           "https://example.net/rdap/",
           "http://example.net/rdap/"
         ]
       ]
     ]
    }