I view two options for meeting the goals of REPP, which I believe is to have a
more Cloud-friendly provisioning protocol:
1. Incremental Approach
* Implement incremental changes to EPP that make it more Cloud-friendly,
which does need to be fully compliant with the EPP RFCs. This includes adding
support for the HTTP transport that is handled by EoH, support for client-side
state that can be handled via an EPP command response extension (e.g., leverage
something like JWT, extend the login command and login response to create the
token, and have the extension pass the token with each EPP command to propagate
the state) that can be used with any EPP transport (EoT, EoH, and EoQ), and
create an EPP URL routing layer that optimizes the routing decisions to the EPP
services. This is certainly not REST but it would be fully compliant with the
EPP RFCs and would not require a rebuild of the existing EPP services, since
the extensions are optional. This work could be done by REGEXT, where the only
question mark is the definition of the EPP URL routing layer in the existing
charter. Other aspects of REPP could be considered for the Incremental
Approach, where this list is what I’ve thought of thus far.
2. Greenfield Approach
* Define a new provisioning protocol that does not attempt to extend
EPP, but instead takes the lessons learned from RDAP for REST and the lessons
learned from EPP for the data model and extensibility to define a new RESTful
provisioning protocol. EPP is more than RFC 5730 but includes all the
extensions that have been created over the past 20 years, so creating a new
provisioning protocol that can support a similar set of features will be a very
large undertaking. This large task is best suited for a new working group with
a defined set of requirements. Attempting to do this work in REGEXT would need
to de-prioritize the extension work, since it will consume most if not all the
focus. All the EPP services and extensions would need to be re-implemented and
transitioned from EPP. I personally worked on the development of EPP and the
transition from RRP, and the effort and impact should not be underestimated.
What is currently defined in REPP is more Greenfield but is attempting to
maintain some compatibility with EPP. I would go with the fully compatible
Incremental Approach or a pure Greenfield Approach.
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From: Orie Steele <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
To: Maarten Wullink <[email protected]>
Cc: Registration Protocols Extensions <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [regext] Re: RESTful EPP Charter side meeting Thursday 13:00
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Hi,
I said that we heard 2 paths forward:
- recharter / expand existing charter
- new working group
If you feel strongly about this topic, I welcome any comments on this list or
to me or the chairs privately.
There seems to be energy to do this work, I'll work with you all to find the
right approach.
Thanks to the authors and chairs for the presentation in today's meeting.
Regards,
OS, ART AD
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 3:35 PM Maarten Wullink
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi All,
Thank you all, for the comments and suggestions during our discussion earlier
today about RESTful EPP.
The Area Director suggested we create a new working group for this and similar
work.
If you are interested in joining us, to discuss and write a concept charter for
this new WG, we have organised a side meeting for this on Thursday.
Online participation is also an option, the URL will be added to the wiki
shortly.
Room: Tennyson
Time: 1300-14:00
URL:
https://wiki.ietf.org/en/meeting/120/sidemeetings<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1c9F5WwSIlo9XMwTM6J8h11yl1EFLkyVrgN49FLlBoU5AK1JtkdZWOQXZeb_ahBS4P7-6NDCZenNLquQrX1DhBv4IwG5IEbq5QtL28jON0grvoikwD3NBrQxAECXWpMStlRhicpWcAxc4eg9ndNHhEfE_wyMX8jlZQo-p_CXPWo6t1qpA-hinWx2NVZOmFpeSbg8tCtMpTNMh2QityccUZPuxP32j8EKsUYzixCGwClZBjQsCRKz0zq5NAtVBuYCwBMOEFkv3cZLstbB0BCGyuGOOCQtM2NsKPFYGZyhyYVc/https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.ietf.org%2Fen%2Fmeeting%2F120%2Fsidemeetings>
Best,
Maarten
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