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RFC 4992, "XML Pipelining with Chunks for the Internet Registry Information Service", August 2007

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 8996

Source of RFC: crisp (app)
See Also: RFC 4992 w/ inline errata

Errata ID: 2829
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2007-09-09
Verifier Name: Peter Saint-Andre
Date Verified: 2011-08-01

Section 6.2 says:

  Chunks of this type contain XML conformant to the schema specified in
  [9] and MUST have the <versions> element as the root element.

It should say:

   Chunks of this type MUST contain XML conformant to the schema
   specified in [9] and MUST have the <versions> element as the root
   element, unless sent by the Client to solicit version information;
   client to server chunks may be zero length, as detailed below.

Notes:

Note: This erratum was separated off from erratum #1009.

The reporter of the erratum said:

As already mentioned earlier in the text and clarified in the
second-to-last paragraph of the same section, this requirements
language is improper because it is intended to allow clients to
send this type of chunk as well, with unspecified (perhaps empty)
content, to be ignored by the server.

The authors of the specification provided the following notes:

We recommend accepting the error reported in Erratum ID 2829,
but we do not recommend accepting the proposed fix. The issue
is that the MUSTs listed in the original apply when the server
emits this, but not to the client when it is soliciting this.
We recommend the following:

"Chunks of this type MUST contain XML conformant to the schema
specified in [9] and MUST have the <versions> element as the
root element, unless sent by the Client to solicit version
information; client to server chunks may be zero length, as
detailed below."

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