The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Extension Registry for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol' (draft-ietf-eppext-reg-10.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Extensible Provisioning Protocol Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Pete Resnick and Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eppext-reg/ Technical Summary The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) includes features to add functionality by extending the protocol. It does not, however, describe how those extensions are managed. This document describes a procedure for the registration and management of extensions to EPP and it specifies a format for an IANA registry to record those extensions. Working Group Summary One issue that was discussed at length by the working group is whether or not "Specification Required" was a sufficient IANA policy for this registry. Of concern was the question of whether or not extensions to EPP should be reviewed for the purpose of harmonizing extensions that may be similar. After considerable debate it was the consensus of the working group that there was unlikely to be sufficient motivation in the industry to harmonize extensions as compared to publishing a specification describing the extension. The WG put forward this document as Standards Track. However, there is no strong feeling in the WG that this is required, so it is left to the discretion of the IESG to decide whether Informational is more appropriate. Document Quality The Document Shepherd did a thorough editorial and technical review of the document, and resolved any issues brought up during WGLC. A subsequent AD Review resulted in additional clarifications. The Document Shepherd does not have any concerns about the depth or breath of the reviews. Personnel Jim Galvin (co-chair of the working group) is the Document Shepherd. Pete Resnick is the responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Note A simple change to address Brian's comment: OLD A reference to the specification of this extension NEW A publicly available reference to the specification of this extension
