Mike, Ever since ... gosh, before epp saw the light of day I've been trying to make it so the registries offer a constant api surface to registrars and to 3rd-party solution and contract operators. When the .info registry decided that there was advantage in inconsistency, I was not happy. I agree that: o the gTLD Registries be consistent in their EPP implementations. o the sTLDs should also be consistent in their EPP implementations, and express their unique rules as valid EPP extensions. <.cat hat==on> o the ccTLDs are probably outside of our influence, except that there is no reason why they wouldn't want something that works. o the pseudo-ccTLDs are probably more amenable to the shared channel approach, hence to a single api. Registry operators that break the rules get punished at bid and renewal time. At this point vgrs, afilias, and nu* have done enough stupid tricks to make their .net happiness doubtful, assuming ICANN wasn't corrupt and stupid too. My two beads worth too... Eric