Hi Scott,
IMHO, the information required to represent an event are the event type
and the event date. The one without the other is meaningless. The event
actor has been already defined as optional on some basis. The "links"
member is something that could be used to convey additional information.
With regards to the event actor definition, I always wondered what
"responsible" meant . Is it purposefully left to the interpretation?
Mario
Il 07/05/2020 15:34, Hollenbeck, Scott ha scritto:
Mario found an interesting issue in RFC 7483. The text in Section 4.5 says this:
"The "events" array consists of objects, each with the following members:
o "eventAction" -- a string denoting the reason for the event
o "eventActor" -- an optional identifier denoting the actor responsible
for the event
o "eventDate" -- a string containing the time and date the event occurred.
o "links" -- see Section 4.2"
As I read this, an "events" array contains objects, and each object has 4 members. There's nothing here that says that
any of the members are REQUIRED or OPTIONAL, but "each with the following members" sounds to me like they MUST be
included. There are, however, examples in the document the omit one or more members. The example in Section 4.5 itself omits the
"links" member, and an example in Section 5.1 omits both the "eventActor" and "links" members.
The few implementations I've looked at (Verisign, ARIN, APNIC, Afilias, GoDaddy) all omit both the "eventActor" and
"links" members. I'm inclined to add text to 7483bis noting that the "eventAction" and "eventDate" members
are REQUIRED and the "eventActor" and "links" members are OPTIONAL. Does that cause any concern for anyone?
Scott
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