The first draft of the Allocation Token EPP Extension ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gould-allocation-token-00 ) has been submitted to the IETF. I co-authored this draft with Sharon Wodjenski and Trung Tran from Neustar to support the definition of an allocation token for allocating an object like a domain name. In one use case, the token can be used to support the releasing of reserved names via an external auction provider, where the domain names and tokens are provided to the auction provider, and the winning registrant of the auction will receive the token to pass through the registrar to the registry to allocate a domain name using a transform command like create, update, or transfer. Another use case is to use the token to authorize the allocation of domain names in a founder’s program. Other alternatives like leveraging the authinfo or leveraging one of the key, value pair extensions were considered, but we felt that having an explicit allocation token to authorize the allocation of an object was the cleanest approach. Please review the draft and provide any feedback. Thanks, — JG [cid:77031CC3-BE7A-4188-A95F-D23115A30A4D@vcorp.ad.vrsn.com] James Gould Distinguished Engineer jgould@Verisign.com 703-948-3271 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 VerisignInc.com<http://VerisignInc.com> “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may be constituted as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, notify sender immediately and delete this message immediately.”