Hi James,
Thank you for the responses.
Please see inline [GF]

Regards,

Giuseppe

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Giuseppe,

Thank you for the review and feedback.  I provide responses to your feedback 
embedded below, prefixed with "JG-".  

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Document: draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic
Title: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport over QUIC
Reviewer: Giuseppe Fioccola
Review result: Has Issues


Hi,


I have been selected as the Operational Directorate (opsdir) reviewer for this 
Internet-Draft.


The Operational Directorate reviews all operational and management-related 
Internet-Drafts to ensure alignment with operational best practices and that 
adequate operational considerations are covered.


A complete set of _"Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management in 
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While these comments are primarily for the Operations and Management Area 
Directors (Ops ADs), the authors should consider them alongside other feedback 
received.


- Document: draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic-09


- Reviewer: Giuseppe Fioccola


- Review Date: 2026-06-22


- Intended Status: Standards Track


---


## Summary


- Has Issues: I have some minor concerns about this document that I think 
should be resolved before publication.


## General Operational Comments Alignment with RFC 5706bis


> This document specifies how the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) 
> is
mapped onto QUIC.


> I would have expected a section or at least some text to explain the 
> use
cases where EPP over QUIC can be deployed.


> In this regards, for example, it can be interesting to understand how 
> EPP
over QUIC can be used as alternative or replacement of the other possible 
connections (e.g. TCP, HTTP,...).

JG-EPP over QUIC (EoQ) follows the template used for the first and currently 
only transport for EPP with EPP over TCP (EoT) in RFC 5734, where all the 
considerations in section 2.1 "Transport Mapping Considerations" of the EPP RFC 
5730 must be met.  With that context in mind, EoQ is pluggable with EoT and EPP 
over HTTPS (EoH) defined in draft-ietf-regext-epp-https.  The choice of 
transport(s) is based on deployment architecture considerations, such as use of 
the public cloud, security, and performance.  We can add some text to the end 
of the Introduction to describe the motivation of adding a choice to the EPP 
transports, such as:

NEW:
EPP [RFC5730] was designed for pluggability of transports that must follow 
section 2.1 of [RFC5730].  EoQ defines a fully pluggable QUIC transport for EPP 
as an alternative to other EPP transports, such as EPP over TCP (EoT) defined 
in [RFC5734].  The server can choose to offer EoQ in addition to EoT or as a 
replacement for EoT, based on the security and performance considerations of 
QUIC and the preferred deployment architecture of the server and clients.   

[GF]: Ok, the proposed text can help to clarify.


> Section 10 on the Operational Considerations should be reviewed. 
> Currently,
it includes several subsections, but it would be better to have some general 
considerations at the beginning to introduce the following subsections.


> I would move section 10.7 on the Authentication Considerations under 
> the
Security Considerations section since it is more related to security.

JG-We got similar feedback from the Secdir that Operational Considerations 10.7 
and 10.8 are also Security Considerations, so should probably be copied / 
referenced from 11. Security Considerations.  We can move both 10.7 and 10.8 
under the Security Considerations to address the feedback from Secdir and 
Opsdir. 

[GF]: Yes, it makes sense to move those sections.


## Major Issues


> From an OPSDIR point of view, it is good to have the Operational
Considerations section. However, I suggest to revise that section to improve 
its readability, as mentioned above. In addition, it would be useful to mention 
the possible use cases.

JG-We will look at the Operational Considerations section for improvements.  
The use cases for EoQ are generic, since EoQ is fully pluggable with EoT and it 
becomes a choice based on security, performance, and deployment architecture 
considerations as described above.  

[GF]: Thanks! In particular, you can add some general considerations before the 
different subsections.

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## Minor Issues


> In section 5, it is not clear the reason why the total length of the 
> EPP
data unit is a 32-bit field. I suggest to add an explanation about this design 
choice.

JG-The choice of a 32-bit field is to match the packet framing defined for EoT 
to support transport pluggability.  We can make a note of the basis for the 
length to match EoT in [RFC5734].  

[GF]: I see, a note to explain it would be useful.


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## Nits


> In section 3, the different steps of the message exchange are already
mentioned. I suggest to add a reference to Figure 1 of section 4 to make it 
easier for the reader to understand.

JG-Thanks, we can add a reference to Figure 1 from Section 3.  

[GF]: Ok

> The Operational Considerations section could be moved before the IANA
Considerations section.

JG-We can move the Operations Considerations section to be just before the IANA 
Considerations section.

[GF]: Ok

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