Hi Jim,

This isn't the venue to discuss the niceties of RST v2.0, so instead, I will 
direct you to the RST test specifications, specifically the epp-02 test case:

https://icann.github.io/rst-test-specs/rst-test-specs.html#Test-Case-epp-02

Note that there is an error in the description of this test case that will be 
fixed in the next version. A pull request showing the planned change may be 
found here:

https://github.com/icann/rst-test-specs/pull/114/files

G.

> On 22 Oct 2025, at 17:44, Gould, James <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> I'm not proposing that "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-0.7" should be registered 
> in the EPP extension registry for any reason.  If the RST 2.0 requirement did 
> require draft extension versions to be registered, then the registration 
> request of "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-0.7" would be a negative side effect.  
> Attempting to register a draft extension (e.g., 
> "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-0.7" in draft-brown-epp-fees-04) when there is 
> later RFC registration (e.g., " urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-1.0" and RFC 8748) 
> should be rejected.  The attempt to register a proprietary extension that is 
> a copy of a draft extension with the exact same XML namespace should also be 
> rejected.  Copying a draft extension and changing the XML namespace would be 
> accepted, but that would fragment the extensions based on the number of 
> registries that implement the draft extension and need to register their 
> implementation in the EPP extension registry to meet the RST 2.0 requirement. 
>    
> 
> Andy, can you clarify the RST 2.0 registration requirement, since that 
> requirement is what would drive the need to register a draft extension, such 
> as the following:
> 
> 1. Do all implemented extensions need to be registered? 
> 2. Do only implemented proprietary extensions need to be registered? 
> 3. Is there a distinction between the different types of IETF drafts (e.g., 
> individual draft, active working group draft, abandoned working group draft) 
> that need to be registered?
> 
> I don't believe there would be the natural desire to register 
> draft-brown-epp-fees-04 with the "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-0.7" namespace.  
> The hope is that the registries would naturally implement the RFC version 
> within a reasonable period (draft-brown-epp-fees-04 was published on February 
> 17, 2015, and RFC 8748 was published in March 2020).  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> 
> JG 
> 
> 
> 
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> On 10/22/25, 11:54 AM, "Thomas Corte (TANGO support)" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> 
> On 22.10.25 17:32, Gould, James wrote:
> 
> 
>> Does the RST 2.0 registration requirement also apply to implementations of 
>> active extension
>> drafts? Imagine that a registry implemented a draft version of the registry 
>> fee extension prior
>> to it becoming an RFC and the registry needed to pass RST 2.0. Would the 
>> registry need to
>> register the draft version in the EPP extension registry or worse yet copy 
>> the draft extension
>> and register it as a proprietary extension retaining the IETF namespace? The 
>> XML namespace is
>> not easily changed when registries choose to implement the draft extension, 
>> since it will impact
>> all registrars using that extension version. The implementation of draft 
>> versions has been done
>> with EPP from the beginning. Consider the 04/02 days of EPP, when registries 
>> implemented the
>> -04 version of the base EPP draft and the -02 version of the object mapping 
>> drafts. The use of
>> point versioning of the XML namespace helped with the 04/02 days of EPP, but 
>> draft versions of
>> EPP extensions have been implemented with the launch phase extension and the 
>> registry fee
>> extension to name a couple. I believe we should encourage the implementation 
>> of draft
>> extensions that hopefully do become RFCs, where there are instances that the 
>> draft extensions
>> did not progress to RFC.
> 
> 
> While I agree with the above, I'd also hate to see something like
> 
> 
> "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-0.7"
> 
> 
> being allowed to be registered and thereby possibly established as a 
> permanently acceptable 
> implementation of the fee extension. Working on the registrar side of things, 
> I'm not a fan of 
> having to maintain support for numerous incompatible versions in my client 
> code.
> 
> 
> In this sense, it's good to see ICANN requiring the use of registered 
> extensions going forward, and 
> I assume they're doing this to make life easier for registrars, as it nudges 
> registries towards 
> (finally, after 5 years) implementing the 1.0 version.
> 
> 
> Allowing "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:fee-0.7" to be registered alongside 
> "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp:fee-1.0" would undermine this effort.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Thomas
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