On 27.07.2016 17:55, Gustavo Lozano wrote:
Hello Colleagues,
I think that you may find this news alert of your interest.
Regards, Gustavo
Hi Gustavo et al., in respect to the RDAP servers operated by the registrars, do I understand it correctly that registrars also need to use and report ROIDs for referencing and querying contacts/entities instead of the standard EPP handles, and that they need to be reported as part of the output of domains, entities and name servers? As you surely know, the EPP entirely uses (registrar defined) handles for managing contacts and to associate them to domain objects. Similarly, the names of the name servers are used for managing them and to associate them with the domain objects. So in the normal workflow, the ROID simply does not matter, and as such, it is currently not stored in the data model of our registrar management software. Something what makes it worse is that the ROID is not a by-product of normal registry operations. With standard EPP, one does not get the ROID back upon the creation of objects or on transfer-in. One has to explicitly inquire these. Also, if a customer decides to use a contact handle sponsored by a different registrar, my system does not know the ROID neither and has to inquire it explicitly (this does not apply for name servers, as they are referenced by name). So the use of ROIDs seems to be quite cumbersome and rather expensive in comparison to its little benefit. Regards, Klaus