[registrars] DROA Notice

Ross Rader ross at tucows.com
Wed Nov 9 13:55:50 UTC 2005


Tim Ruiz wrote:

> When do you
> expect that the Transfers WG will get active again?

No current schedule. The work has taken a backseat to other issues. 
Unfortunately, our agenda has been victimized substantially over the 
last year as we reacted to crisis' created elsewhere (.net, .com 
agreements). The plate will continue to be "too full" as long as the 
settlement agreement is taking the lionshare of our attention.

> 
>> The notion that registrars are going to manually verify for
>> each transfer out and cancel those that are inappropriate 
>> is about as ridiculous...
> 
> Not true. We were successfully doing just that. What the policy has done
> is taken away that choice from registrars who are capable of doing just
> that.

I'd be interested in learning more about this process. I'm aware that 
many registrars were denying all outbound transfers, but unaware that 
some were actually manually verifying all transfers out based on a 
personal relationship with their registrants as Jim implied. I suppose 
it is possible on some small scale, but hadn't considered it doable on a 
large-scale basis.

-ross



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