Hello Eric, I was agreeing that provisioning (via EPP) is separate to publication (via WHOIS). I do believe that it is appropriate to provide different amounts of information in response to an EPP <info> query depending on whether you are the registrar-of-record for a particular registry record, or whether the registrar has the appropriate auth-info code. In fact I believe I suggested the use of auth-info in the <info> command at some point during the development of the EPP protocol. This has been implemented with EPP in the .au context. While I believe that the direction PIR is taking (different amount of information available depending on whether the registrar of record) is sensible, I also agree that such changes should be made with consultation so that all sides of the argument can be heard. With respect to the detail of the PIR change - I agree that the status of a domain name should be available to all (via both WHOIS publication and EPP provisioning interface). Regards, Bruce