Network Working Group S. Hollenbeck
Request for Comments: 3730 VeriSign, Inc.
Category: Standards Track March 2004
Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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Abstract
This document describes an application layer client-server protocol
for the provisioning and management of objects stored in a shared
central repository. Specified in XML, the protocol defines generic
object management operations and an extensible framework that maps
protocol operations to objects. This document includes a protocol
specification, an object mapping template, and an XML media type
registration.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Protocol Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Transport Mapping Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Protocol Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Hello Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. Greeting Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5. Command Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.6. Response Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.7. Protocol Extension Framework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.7.1. Protocol Extension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.7.2. Object Extension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.7.3. Command-Response Extension. . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.8. Object Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.9. Protocol Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.9.1. Session Management Commands . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.9.1.1. EPP <login> Command . . . . . . . . . 20
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2.9.1.2. EPP <logout> Command. . . . . . . . . 22
2.9.2. Query Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.9.2.1. EPP <check> Command . . . . . . . . . 24
2.9.2.2. EPP <info> Command. . . . . . . . . . 26
2.9.2.3. EPP <poll> Command. . . . . . . . . . 27
2.9.2.4. EPP <transfer> Query Command. . . . . 32
2.9.3. Object Transform Commands . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.9.3.1. EPP <create> Command. . . . . . . . . 34
2.9.3.2. EPP <delete> Command. . . . . . . . . 35
2.9.3.3. EPP <renew> Command . . . . . . . . . 37
2.9.3.4. EPP <transfer> Command. . . . . . . . 38
2.9.3.5. EPP <update> Command. . . . . . . . . 41
3. Result Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4. Formal Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.1. Base Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.2. Shared Structure Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
8. Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
9. References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
9.1. Normative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
9.2. Informative References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Appendix A: Object Mapping Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Appendix B: Media Type Registration: application/epp+xml. . . . . 67
Author's Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Full Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
1. Introduction
This document describes specifications for the Extensible
Provisioning Protocol (EPP) version 1.0, an XML text protocol that
permits multiple service providers to perform object provisioning
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