[registrars] EPP transfer

[Mike Lampson]

> "1. That no existing EPP registry shall be required to upgrade to
> EPP until such time that .com and .net are both operating on EPP."

Actually, I think it should be the other way around.  The EPP syntaxes used
by .INFO, .BIZ, .NAME and .ORG are quite diverse (especially .INFO).  I
would like to see the "easy" upgrades of the existing EPP Registries before
dealing with .NET or .COM.

IMHO,

Mike Lampson
The Registry at Info Avenue, LLC

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org]On Behalf Of Ross Wm Rader
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:02 AM
To: Elana Broitman
Cc: registrars at dnso.org
Subject: Re: [registrars] EPP transfer


On 5/17/2004 10:53 AM Elana Broitman noted that:

> someone suggested that as a way to transition from rrp to epp.

I'd like to toss another suggestion into the mix...

"1. That no existing EPP registry shall be required to upgrade to EPP
until such time that .com and .net are both operating on EPP."

Here's why...

All of the other registries are already operating with some flavor of
EPP and all interested registrars have already undertaken an integration
with those registries. .com and .net are the last two that Registrars
are really concerned with. While it would be nice to have .biz and .info
running precisely the same flavor of EPP, not having this isn't going to
kill anyone. On the other hand, Verisign's implementation of EPP might.
I'd prefer that Registrars get a chance to focus on the intricacies that
will be associated with the .com and .net migrations without the
distraction of anything else going on. This will also give the other
registry operators the luxury of having some time to react to any
business policy changes that Verisign might require as part of the
migration. At the end of the day, business policy interoperability is
probably more important to Registrars than technical interoperability
between Registrars and I think we would all benefit from being able to
focus on doing the hard work first (.com and .net) followed by the
easier ones....



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