Jasdip,

The RDAP extension identifier with the RDAP extension registry also ensures 
uniqueness of the other RDAP extension types, so it is not a factor of 
uniqueness, but consistency for RDAP extensibility.  The 
draft-ietf-regext-rdap-x-media-type draft is identifying the use of bare 
identifiers as an issue with a MUST NOT, which should apply to all forms of 
RDAP extensibility.  The draft-ietf-regext-rdap-x-media-type draft needs to 
follow the same rules as all other RDAP extensions, with a registered extension 
identifier and the use of that extension identifier for the extension element.  
The question is whether that extension element can match the extension 
identifier (bare identifier) exactly or must be prefixed with the extension 
identifier and an underbar separator based on the language being proposed in 
section 2.4.5 of draft-ietf-regext-rdap-extensions “Henceforth, this pattern 
MUST NOT be used”.

I have a concern of draft-ietf-regext-rdap-x-media-type breaking the approach 
taken with prior RDAP extension RFCs.  My recommendation is to remove the MUST 
NOT language from draft-ietf-regext-rdap-extensions for what is defined there 
as the Bare Extension Identifier.

Thanks,

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JG

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From: Jasdip Singh <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
To: James Gould <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "Hollenbeck, Scott" 
<[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Re: [regext] Re: On bare identifiers in Extensions draft


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James,

Preventing naming collisions in RDAP requests (query paths and parameters) and 
responses (JSON) across multiple RDAP extensions does make sense.

But this is not a problem for a media type since its parameters, if any, are 
appended right after (delimited by a semi-colon) in an Accept or a Content-Type 
header, and that inherently makes them unique from parameters for another media 
type, as in:

  accept: application/json;q=0.9,
                   application/rdap+json;extensions="rdap_level_0 
rdapExtensions1 fred";q=1,
                   <another media type>;extensions="…”;<another 
parameter>=”…”;q=1

Furthermore, for example, the “charset” parameter exists for both the 
“text/html” and “text/csv” media types.

In other words, if media types are guaranteed to be unique, which the IANA 
Media Types registry [1] ensures, naming parameters for each of them is 
considered safe from collisions. Hence, no need for prefixing a media type’s 
parameters.

Jasdip

[1] 
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1xpfo_ic-_83h-0SlYP9DAqKG33gadbCuaq5L44XWFjGpzb9MwinR30qAtbU3ssDn5DV5lOrsrN7A-XDUqh2BgkN1pHrmDJZYMHKzZDN5BiIh8Jn3R0NnENziVkzPMtTUhtGz65Y05XEN4FLmuIc0VsLB0CJTM2R6jmzya_TZPhkrHfUtII91L2Yur3WcBvtmcE7qt-Uw-gfFJn7hdWx9b2RTOOhPK92edwZ-pqD25KrUF2Cn0iYUw67hHYrBIZLn3K5kiBiPhUI4NyKxHbD_0YiNoMpL7zErECrWoB9LT3g/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iana.org%2Fassignments%2Fmedia-types%2Fmedia-types.xhtml>

From: Gould, James <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
To: Jasdip Singh <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, 
[email protected] <[email protected]>, Hollenbeck, Scott 
<[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: [regext] Re: On bare identifiers in Extensions draft
Jasdip,

The same case can be made for query parameters and path segments.  An RDAP 
extension can come in many forms, whether it be media type parameters, query 
parameters, path segments, and JSON members.  I personally don’t believe there 
is any issue with bare identifiers for extension elements if there is no 
conflict and there is a clear specification.  If we’re going to require an 
extension identifier prefix with an underbar separator for all RDAP extension 
elements, that would apply to draft-ietf-regext-rdap-x-media-type and its media 
type parameter.

Thanks,

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JG

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From: Jasdip Singh <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
To: "Andrew (andy) Newton" <[email protected]>, James Gould <[email protected]>, 
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] Re: On bare identifiers in Extensions draft


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Hi James,

The string literal “rdapExtensions1” is intended as this ‘profile’ extension’s 
identifier, per the Extension Identifier section [1].

Not sure if we need such prefixing to avoid parameter collision for media 
types, like “application/rdap+json”, that the IETF produces. AFAIK, this is not 
even done for the non-IETF media type trees like “vnd.”.

Jasdip

[1] 
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-regext-rdap-x-media-type-03.html#name-extension-identifier<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1s3TRlXlUHD4LwvWvsWs2lnaUeJVvWW2GLuuVzdbtP3_oR1cr_Q07S61RomAnDMuMl414YyoM0QbzUvX4U1dp6bvoab5pRVRuhpTJMK_35HZ3R6MuNkFtOaDywZD6tBPG7d9tep-fMm86fO9aHfjdgxUspeyCOeXB0zY4n08LWB63VO8AF1R0YXBCOCJN5R7JH-U7y04Uq5hkTvf00P6wKgEYot4rh5ThUQPpKheXdsJB7BTg3D5u6Ui7jm1Lb0FJFligapXOywcHFX78qe1-hN1MVtVnxWt8g8AVxQlyF30/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Farchive%2Fid%2Fdraft-ietf-regext-rdap-x-media-type-03.html%23name-extension-identifier>


From: Andrew (andy) Newton <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
To: Gould, James <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>, 
Hollenbeck, Scott <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
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Subject: [regext] Re: On bare identifiers in Extensions draft


On 6/16/25 07:56, Gould, James wrote:
>
> Shouldn’t the x-media draft register the “extensions” RDAP extension 
> identifier and use an extension identifier prefix in place of the bare 
> identifier for the “extensions” media type parameter, such as 
> “extensions_extensions”, “extensions_param”?  I believe the x-media draft 
> should include an RDAP extension registration, but I don’t believe there is 
> the need to change from the use of the bare identifier.

I think "extensions_list" is probably what we want. Good point. I've created an 
issue for the next rev.

-andy

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