[Ietf-not43] XML-RPC for an information service?

[Patrick]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:02:55AM -0700, Rick Wesson took time to write:
> actually its not at all like the epp work in PROVREG, epp is a protocol
> for registries to talk to registrars over, epp is not no has it ever been
> used to talk to registrants. although they are all simular they each have
> different requirements.

But close enough I think...

> This thread does beg the question... has anyone identified reasons not to
> pull from the structures defined in epp?

... so that we (Gandi) will work on providing access to data to some
of our customers using EPP. We will see what turns out.

After all, EPP stands for Extensible Provisioning Protocol 
so Registrant provisioning Objects should only be one extension as
another one ;-)

As for the reasons, I think it is probably historical, since EPP is
very young after all.
On http://www.adamsnames.tc/api/xmlrpc.html it's written:
Last Modified: Wed Apr 11 08:06:03 2001
at which time EPP was not so defined as it is now.

Otherwise I agree that this WG is far further than just XMLRPC or
EPP.

Patrick.