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draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic

Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic
Document Shepherd Write-Up for draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic

Thank you for your service as a document shepherd. Among the responsibilities is
answering the questions in this write-up to give helpful context to Last Call
and Internet Engineering Steering Group ([IESG][1]) reviewers, and your
diligence in completing it is appreciated. The full role of the shepherd is
further described in [RFC 4858][2]. You will need the cooperation of the authors
and editors to complete these checks.

Note that some numbered items contain multiple related questions; please be sure
to answer all of them.

## Document History

1. Does the working group (WG) consensus represent the strong concurrence of a
   few individuals, with others being silent, or did it reach broad agreement?

   Yes, a broad agreement was reached. There have been 5 expressions of support
   (not counting the editors or document shepherd) and no objections.

2. Was there controversy about particular points, or were there decisions where
   the consensus was particularly rough?

        No.

3. Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? If
   so, please summarize the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the
   responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this
   questionnaire is publicly available.)

        No.

4. For protocol documents, are there existing implementations of the contents of
   the document? Have a significant number of potential implementers indicated
   plans to implement? Are any existing implementations reported somewhere,
   either in the document itself (as [RFC 7942][3] recommends) or elsewhere
   (where)?

    Existing implementation can be found in the Verisign EPP SDK 1.17.0.2,
    published at:
    https://www.verisign.com/resources/registrar-resources/epp-sdk/ which needs
    to be updated in the draft from
    https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/epp-sdks

    At the time of composing this document no public plans to deploy this transport were found. 


## Additional Reviews

5. Do the contents of this document closely interact with technologies in other
   IETF working groups or external organizations, and would it therefore benefit
   from their review? Have those reviews occurred? If yes, describe which
   reviews took place.

   Review was received from the QUIC group (Lucas Pardue) that addressed
   materials in sections 1,3,5, and 6. Lucas Pardue recommended adding
   versioning to the ALPN value (e.g., “eoq/0.1”), which was done in
   draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic-02.  Martin Thompson from the QUIC working group
   recommended removing the versioning, so the document editors looked to what
   was done for DNS over QUIC in RFC 9250, which was to not using versioning in
   the form “DoQ”.  The ALPN value was updated to “EoQ” in
   draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic-04 and a reference was made to RFC 7301 in
   draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic-05.

   Please see
   https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/regext/Thll_wlvPo-BRGfY57JGDXUBYXc/
   for more details.

6. Describe how the document meets any required formal expert review criteria,
   such as the MIB Doctor, YANG Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

   This document does not use any MIB, YANG, or media types, as such it does not
   require a formal expert review.

7. If the document contains a YANG module, has the final version of the module
   been checked with any of the [recommended validation tools][4] for syntax and
   formatting validation? If there are any resulting errors or warnings, what is
   the justification for not fixing them at this time? Does the YANG module
   comply with the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) as specified
   in [RFC 8342][5]?

   This document does not contain a YANG module.

8. Describe reviews and automated checks performed to validate sections of the
   final version of the document written in a formal language, such as XML code,
   BNF rules, MIB definitions, CBOR's CDDL, etc.

   The document does not contain any formal specification language that
   requires validation.

## Document Shepherd Checks

9. Based on the shepherd's review of the document, is it their opinion that this
   document is needed, clearly written, complete, correctly designed, and ready
   to be handed off to the responsible Area Director?

   Yes, after the URL for the Verisign EPP SDK implementation is updated to 
   https://www.verisign.com/resources/registrar-resources/epp-sdk/. This
   document describes how an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) session is
   mapped onto a QUIC connection and details how this mechanism leverages the
   performance and security features of the QUIC protocol as an EPP transport.

10. Several IETF Areas have assembled [lists of common issues that their
    reviewers encounter][6]. For which areas have such issues been identified
    and addressed? For which does this still need to happen in subsequent
    reviews?

    No such issues have been identified or addressed.

11. What type of RFC publication is being requested on the IETF stream ([Best
    Current Practice][12], [Proposed Standard, Internet Standard][13],
    [Informational, Experimental or Historic][14])? Why is this the proper type
    of RFC? Do all Datatracker state attributes correctly reflect this intent?

    Proposed Standard. Datatracker stated attributes correctly reflect proposed
    standard. The intended status is appropriate as the document specifies
    normative behaviors that impact interoperability between EPP Clients and Servers.

12. Have reasonable efforts been made to remind all authors of the intellectual
    property rights (IPR) disclosure obligations described in [BCP 79][7]? To
    the best of your knowledge, have all required disclosures been filed? If
    not, explain why. If yes, summarize any relevant discussion, including links
    to publicly available messages when applicable.

    Yes, I have confirmed with the editor that all disclosure obligations have
    been met and no disclosures are required. Please see the links below:

    https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/regext/?qdr=y&q=draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic%20IPR

13. Has each author, editor, and contributor shown their willingness to be
    listed as such? If the total number of authors and editors on the front page
    is greater than five, please provide a justification.

        Yes. The total number of authors is 5.

14. Document any remaining I-D nits in this document. Simply running the [idnits
    tool][8] is not enough; please review the ["Content Guidelines" on
    authors.ietf.org][15]. (Also note that the current idnits tool generates
    some incorrect warnings; a rewrite is underway.)

    There are no errors to address in draft-regext-epp-quic-06


15. Should any informative references be normative or vice-versa? See the [IESG
    Statement on Normative and Informative References][16].

        No.

16. List any normative references that are not freely available to anyone. Did
    the community have sufficient access to review any such normative
    references?

        There are no such references.

17. Are there any normative downward references (see [RFC 3967][9] and [BCP
    97][10]) that are not already listed in the [DOWNREF registry][17]? If so,
    list them.

        There are no such references.

18. Are there normative references to documents that are not ready to be
    submitted to the IESG for publication or are otherwise in an unclear state?
    If so, what is the plan for their completion?

        There are no such references.

19. Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? If
    so, does the Datatracker metadata correctly reflect this and are those RFCs
    listed on the title page, in the abstract, and discussed in the
    introduction? If not, explain why and point to the part of the document
    where the relationship of this document to these other RFCs is discussed.

        No. This publication does not change the status of any existing RFC.

20. Describe the document shepherd's review of the IANA considerations section,
    especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the document.
    Confirm that all aspects of the document requiring IANA assignments are
    associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm
    that any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm
    that each newly created IANA registry specifies its initial contents,
    allocations procedures, and a reasonable name (see [RFC 8126][11]).

        The document's IANA consideration section 8 lists two points with
        regard to IANA registry update. The first point in section 8.1 contains
        a request for a new IANA registry for EoQ Identification String for the
        identification of EoQ in the "TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation 
        (ALPN) Protocol IDs".
        The second point in section 8.2 contains a request for reassigning an
        existing entry for EPP UDP/700 to this draft.

21. List any new IANA registries that require Designated Expert Review for
    future allocations. Are the instructions to the Designated Expert clear?
    Please include suggestions of designated experts, if appropriate.

        1- Registration of an EoQ Identification String for the identification
        of EoQ in the "TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) 
        Protocol IDs" registry [RFC7301].

        2- Registration of Port Number for the "Service Name and Transport
        Protocol Port Number Registry" contains an entry for EPP UDP/700 based 
        on [RFC6335].  However, no known implementations of EPP over UDP exist.  
        The entry will be reassigned to reference this draft.

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/
[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4858.html
[3]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7942.html
[4]: https://wiki.ietf.org/group/ops/yang-review-tools
[5]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8342.html
[6]: https://wiki.ietf.org/group/iesg/ExpertTopics
[7]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp79
[8]: https://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/
[9]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3967.html
[10]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp97
[11]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8126.html
[12]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html#section-5
[13]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html#section-4.1
[14]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html#section-4.2
[15]: https://authors.ietf.org/en/content-guidelines-overview
[16]: https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/normative-informative-references/
[17]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/downref/

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