Requirement 3.2.8. [was: Re: [Ietf-not43] issues and questions on FIRS]

[Andrew Newton]

Peter Gietz wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>> Let's say I submit a query and get back the following:
>>>>
>>>> START RESPONSE
>>>>
>>>> Contact: bob-192
>>>> Name: Bob Smurd
>>>> Email: bob at example.com
>>>> Phone: 555-1212
>>>>
>>>> Contact: lisa-543
>>>> Name: Lisa Smith
>>>> Phone: 121-5555
>>>>
>>>> Contact: charles-777
>>>> Name: Charles Taylor
>>>> Email: president at nic.lr
>>>> Status: deposed
>>>>
>>>> Error: unwillingToPerform
>>>>
>>>> END RESPONSE
>>>>
>>>> What happened here?
>>>>
>>>> 1 - What bit of information did I not get because of a policy 
>>>> decision?  Was that the phone number for charles-777 or the email 
>>>> address for lisa-543?
>>>>
>>>> 2 - What was the server unwillingToPerform?  It gave me back 3 
>>>> entries!  It certainly was willing to do something.
>>>>
>>>> (Sorry for the last example entry... too much coffee this morning!)
> 
> wouldn't it be enough to tell that more entries would have been returned 
> if authentication were different? That would be indicated by the error 
> code authorizationLimitExceeded.

Well, I'm not sure it is useful otherwise given my example.  Besides, 
3.2.8 talks about these errors with respect to values not result sets.

-andy