RFC 7483, "JSON Responses for the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)", March 2015

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 9083

Errata ID: 5666
Status: Reported
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Andrew Newton
Date Reported: 2019-03-22

Section 3 says:

handle:           DNRs and RIRs have registry-unique identifiers that
                     may be used to specifically reference an object
                     instance.  The semantics of this data type as found
                     in this document are to be a registry-unique
                     reference to the closest enclosing object where the
                     value is found.  The data type names "registryId",
                     "roid", "nic-handle", "registrationNo", etc., are
                     terms often synonymous with this data type.  In
                     this document, the term "handle" is used.  The term
                     exposed to users by clients is a presentation issue
                     beyond the scope of this document.

It should say:

handle:           DNRs and RIRs have registry-unique identifiers that
                     may be used to specifically reference an object
                     instance.  The semantics of this data type as found
                     in this document are to be a registry-unique
                     reference to the closest enclosing object where the
                     value is found.  The data type names "registryId",
                     "roid", "nic-handle", "registrationNo", etc., are
                     terms often synonymous with this data type.  In
                     this document, the term "handle" is used.  The term
                     exposed to users by clients is a presentation issue
                     beyond the scope of this document. This value is a 
                     simple string.

Notes:

All uses of handle in section 5 call "handle" out as being a string, but if a reader were to only read section 3 they would not know it.

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