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Striving to improve: auth codes coming to .EU
Monday, March 3. 2008
I was in Brussels (Belgium) last week for EURid's third "requirements panel" (RP) meeting. The RP is an initiative launched by EURid to work more closely with its registrars. Reacting to criticism that it hadn't done so during the .EU launch, last year EURid invited a few registrars to take an active role in this project.
Seven registrars, including INDOM, were chosen to sit on the panel as representatives of the accredited .EU registrar community.
About once a quarter, the RP meets to discuss those requirements, generally of a technical nature, that would make life easier for .EU registrars. Representatives of EURid's legal, technical and admin departments are there to ensure that the requests made by the registrars; do not go against the rules set for EURid by the European Commission; can fit into, and are not redundant with, the registry's own development programme; are technically feasible for the registry.
At each meeting, based on their own day-to-day experiences with .EU and input from the registrar community, each registrar brings new requirements for consideration. These will then be voted upon by the RP as a whole and given a priority ranking to see which gets looked at first.
One of the first requirements we requested was for EURid to offer an "auth code" based transfer system. This method of verifying the validity of a request to transfer a domain name from one registrar to another – the most basic and essential right the domain holder has: the right to choose his domain service provider – has been used for sometime for generic domains such as .COM. It's a system registrars and domain registrants alike are getting familiar with. So it makes sense to offer it on as many extensions as possible.
.EU was born without such a system. But EURid responded promptly to the RP's suggestion that an auth code based system be introduced.
It's now confirmed: an auth code transfer system will be implemented by EURid sometime in the first half of 2008. EURid told us they will provide .EU registrars and domain owners (who will be able to request their domain's auth code directly) with instructions on how to use it in the near future.
The new system will not replace the existing transfer system, but will sit alongside it. A clever decision by EURid because it means those registrars that don't want to modify their existing transfer systems won't have to, and for those that do, there's always a fall-back just in case.
It will also give us RP members time to fully assess the system and, if needed, request further upgrades from EURid. And give the registrar community time to contact one of us should they wish to comment or ask for changes.
Changes we will then request at the next RP meeting.
[italian]Da qualche mese assieme ad alcuni colleghi rappresentanti di altri Registrars europei faccio parte del cosiddetto “EURid Technical Reference Panel”, un organo consultivo che fornisce consigli e pareri al Registro europeo su co...
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