On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 23:10 +0200, Piotr Przybył wrote:
  On 23/08/16 19:26, Jaromir Talir wrote:
 On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 16:23 +0200, Piotr Przybył wrote:
 Hello cz.nic Team
 I have a few questions related to database migration of FRED if
 you
 don't mind.
 ====
 When trying to download the latest sources from 
https://fred.nic.
 cz/p
 age/2904/download/#source I've
 realised, that they're not available. E.g. the latest migration
 scripts are available in
 fred-db*deb, but the tarball is not a corresponding one.
 Could you please try to release latest sources in tarballs? 
 The last version
I've uploaded on the website is 2.23. We have
 released
 small upgrades 2.24 and 2.25 but there is an issue with building
 them
 on Fedora 24 so I'v postponed next website update to 2.26 that will
 be
 available for recent Fedora system. I believe this will be
 available
 next week and I'll do website update immediately after that. 
 What I had in
mind precisely was that the page lists e.g.
 
https://fred.nic.cz/files/fred/sources/fred-db-2.21.6.tar.gz, which
 doesn't contain
 notification_queue for instance. I discovered the SQL upgrade script
 installed by the package, but
 can't see it in sources tarball. 
Yes, you are right. The reason is that deb packages in archive are
always newer than those published on the website. I believe this will
be in sync at the end of next week.
  
 ====
 Could you briefly describe what's the purpose of tables:
  contact_address
  contact_address_history
 As far I can tell after analysing the sources, these tables are
 populated by a functionality called
 from MojeID ( =your special NIC registrar to keep domain contacts
 defined at central level, not each
 registrar's level).
  
 There is a concept of single address in FRED. In our mojeID
 registrar
 we have a concept of multiple addresses (mail address, permanent
 address,...). We decided to move this concept down into FRED and
 implemented multiple addresses in FRED database. The next step was
 supposed to be propagate this multiple address manipulation into
 EPP
 but this was postponed for a while. I believe we will get to his
 soon. 
  I believe this can make a fair usage in case of a registrar. E.g. you
 create an invoice with address
 A, print it and mail to address B. However, I'm not convinced that
 this makes sense in case of a
 registry which sends nothing at all and the only address is supposed
 to be "the legal address". I
 understand your situation and efforts with MojeId, I'm only wondering
 if other registries will
 utilise that. (Although 1 is still a valid case of having N choices.)
 When it comes to changes addresses it might be nice for some to make
 the street not obligatory
 field, because there are countries in which the street address can be
 missing and it's perfectly
 fine. ;-) 
 
Actually there is a meaning for registry. We send snail mail letter
with information about expiration some time before actual deleting
expired domain. Those letters are generated in PDF form regularly in
FRED. Those letters are now sent to "mailing" address and not "legal"
address if those two addresses differs.  
 
 ====
 What are the following tables for? Or: How the checks of contacts
 are
 working? Is is something
 related to checking if a contact's address fields are valid?
  contact_check
  contact_check_history
  contact_check_message_map
  contact_check_object_state_request_map
  contact_check_poll_message_map
  contact_test_result
  contact_test_result_history
  contact_testsuite_map
  enum_contact_check_status
  enum_contact_check_status_localization
  enum_contact_test
  enum_contact_test_localization
  enum_contact_test_status
  enum_contact_test_status_localization
  enum_contact_testsuite
  enum_contact_testsuite_localization 
 That would be loooong explanation :) I
believe this will be part of
 new
 documentation that Lena is working on. I talked about this briefly
 during ICANN Techday 
  
https://fred.nic.cz/files/fred/FRED-Validation.pdf slide 12,13
 (selective contact validation).  
  So my guess that this is for contact/address
validation was right. ;-
 )
 I'm not aware of the law you must obey/implement in your system.
 This seems to be like a policy forcing every contact to be nice and
 valid for all domains, even if
 they're not causing any trouble (like having sites which might be
 illegal in any part) and BEFORE
 they cause trouble.
 Are you forced to do that? Maybe you're not allowed to assume that
 each registrant/admin is honest
 and peaceful "until proven guilty", or even "accused"? 
 
I guess that everybody want's to have correct data in system.
Incorrectness cause us troubles when we want to reach registrants. We
have registration rules where we say that contact data inserted into
registry should be correct.  So while we cannot easily enforce
correctness on input, we decided to check validity of data that we
already have in registry. 
Jaromir
 
 ====
 There's a table notification_queue. I can't find any usage of it
 (maybe because not all tarballs are
 up to date). What is it for? 
 I was going to mention this in mail summarizing
changes in FRED-
 2.24,
 2.25 and 2.26. There is a new concept of asynchronous notification
 in
 FRED-2.25. In previous versions when registrar issued EPP command
 that
 involved sending notification email to registrant, EPP command was
 waiting for notification subsystem to create this email.
 Asynchronous
 notification means that there is only small record in
 notification_queue table that notification should be send and
 asynchronous script will create this email in separate process. The
 advantage is greater speed of EPP and stability because when
 subsystem
 for notification email creation is not available EPP is not locked. 
  Oh yes, this
makes a perfect sense.
 Do you replicate this table using Slony? (Because it has neither
 primary nor unique key.) 
 We are not using Slony anymore, we have changed to
internal
 streaming
 replication about 4 years ago. Maybe that's why we missed to add
 primary key. I'll ask my colleagues to add this primary key.
  
 
 Thank you for your answers.
 Best regards
 Piotr
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