Pawel,

I don’t have an issue with marking the registration accordingly, but I don’t 
believe it should be removed from the registry.  We want the EPP extension 
registry to include the set of implemented EPP extensions, so keeping the 
implemented extensions in the registry with an appropriate status is a 
priority.  Think about our experience discovering the set of implemented EPP 
extensions in the wild for the EPP Extensibility and Extension Analysis, where 
we analyzed 67 EPP extensions and the EPP extension registry only has 39 
registrations or 58% of the extensions.  It would be better if we could get 
that percentage to 90% or above.

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JG

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From: Pawel Kowalik <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
To: James Gould <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] Re: The IETF XML registry and the EPP 
Extensions


Jim, Andy,

I would not be against removing provisional entries from the registry, in a way.

I would even go further, that a provisional entry should have a deadline, which 
could be prolonged, but with clear indication when an entry will drop or be 
marked as "abandoned" / "discontinued" from the registry.
Releasing a name can have imho possible interoperability consequences, so I 
would not do that to remove the registration entirely.

Talking of external consequences, let me say: let's not make someone else's 
problem to our problem. As soon as the registry would tell clearly "abandoned" 
/ "discontinued", the consumers of this registry may decide on their own 
policies and rules what to do about it.

On our own playfield, having a clear and transparent view on what is the 
process behind, REGEXT may find a different motivation not to let such 
situation to happen.

Kind Regards,
Pawel
On 07.11.25 09:40, Gould, James wrote:

Andy,



I believe the provisional registration could work as long it doesn't get 
removed if the draft becomes abandoned, where that would meet the goal of 
publicizing the existence of an EPP extension in the EPP extension registry.  
In the EPP Extensibility and Extension Analysis it would great when we the 
extensions were in the EPP extension registry.  I don't like using a non-IETF 
namespace for the IETF drafts, where starting with the registry fee extension 
we started using point version IETF namespaces for the EPP extension drafts 
that changed to "1.0" after WGLC.  That has worked very well to support 
development and deployment during the progression of the IETF draft with the 
needed level of isolation.  We implemented and deployed two point versions of 
the registry fee extension prior to transitioning to the final "1.0" version in 
the RFC, which helped to improve the draft.  I would stay away from attempting 
to register the XML namespace in the XML registry for drafts, since they aren't 
final.



Thanks,



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JG







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On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM Gould, James 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

To allow I-Ds, the EPP extensions registry could be modified to allow 
"provisional" or "early" registrations that sidestep the XML namespace 
registration requirements. This is done in many IANA protocol registries setup 
by the IETF, and IANA knows how to periodically check on provisional and early 
registrations.



JG - This is an unnecessary step to fulfil the undefined goal in RST 2.0 and 
the Next Round Registry Agreement.



Setting aside this incorrect assertion, if you don't like the

"provisional" registrations then another solution is to use a URI like

"file:///dev/null"<file:///dev/null> in I-Ds and have IANA assign the URN at 
publication

time according to the provisions of RFC 3688 via a note in the IANA

considerations section to both IANA and the RFC editor (for changing

examples). This means I-Ds would not be registered until publication.





-andy







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