I would disagree. Upgrading from one verion of EPP to another would be a waste of time and money unless there were guarantees that it would result in a standard across all registries. I would support not doing anything until Verisign decides what version of EPP they plan to support and when. Best Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- From: owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lampson Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 12:06 PM To: registrars@dnso.org Subject: RE: [registrars] EPP transfer
"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@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org]On Behalf Of Ross Wm Rader Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:02 AM To: Elana Broitman Cc: registrars@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.... -- -rwr "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Got Blog? http://www.blogware.com My Blogware: http://www.byte.org