[dns-operations] sibling glue

[Joe Abley]

Hi Stéphane,

On 25 Jun 2015, at 7:26, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:18:59PM -0300,
> Joe Abley <jabley at hopcount.ca> wrote
> a message of 119 lines which said:
>
>> The EPP data model includes host objects and domain objects. Every
>> domain is linked to one or more host objects (two or more in
>> practice, for policy reasons orthogonal to the data model).
>
> But having host objects is not mandatory and some registries (like
> .FR) do not use them at all, even when they use EPP.

Indeed. That's what I meant to infer by the text below, which may have 
been too cryptic.

>> I think there are probably as many answers to this as there are 
>> registries, and one size definitely doesn't fit all, but let's assume 
>> you're talking about the kind of EPP data model that grew out of the 
>> RRP-accessible registries that were operated by Verisign, back in the 
>> day (i.e. there are domain objects and host objects).


Joe