[Ietf-not43] Result vs. Entity
Hollenbeck, Scott
shollenbeck@verisign.com
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:19:54 -0500
Someone just brought a possible requirements wording issue to my attention.
In EPP, we allow an IP address to be associated with multiple server
names/aliases. The CRISP requirements draft describes lookup responses like
this:
> 3.2.1 Lookups
>
> 3.2.1.1 Protocol Requirement
>
> The protocol MUST contain the following lookup functions:
>
> ...
>
> 2. Nameserver lookup given a fully-qualified host name or IP address
> of a nameserver.
>
> ...
>
> 3.2.1.2 Service Description
>
> These lookups are all single index queries and should produce zero or
> only one result.
It's entirely possible that an IP address query might need to return
multiple host names, so perhaps the word "result" is a bit misleading in the
service description. Would it be possible to change "result" to a word like
"entity" instead?:
"...and should return zero or one entity."
-Scott-