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TECHNICAL INTEGRATION GUIDE – February 25th, 2013 66Element nameNumber of occurences 0-1 1• is used to indicate the identification status (onlypresent for contacts created with the elements or ) :• no : The contact is not qualified.• pending : The contact is undergoing qualification (with this statusthe operation is not possible).• ok : The contact is positively qualified.• problem : Problem during the qualification process. This state hasan impact on the status of the domains associated with the contact.• ko : At the end of the qualification process the contact could not bepositively qualified.• is used to indicate if the nic-handle was recentlycreated (the value for new is set to 1) or if it using an already existingcontact (the value for new is sent to 0).In the creation command response, RFC 5733 indicates the presence of the element to indicate the time and date of the contact creation.This date can be retrieved by using the the command. Thisinformation must be cautiously interpreted for two reasons. The first is that inour current model (1,5 million contacts are concerned), the creation date wasnot kept. The second is that it is not coherent with our policy of not duplicatingidentical contacts... so, eventhough this element is given in the server answer itsvalue may be before the command request date for the cases using an alreadyexisting contact ().Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération | www.afnic.fr | contact@afnic.frTwitter : @AFNIC | Facebook : afnic.frTechnical Integration Guide- 66 -November 2009