Re: EPP domain:transfer

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:16:40PM +0200, Gerhard Winkler wrote:

[. . .]
> For a domain transfer in .AT we need authorization of the registrant.
> Therefore we have designed a special process:
> - the registrar has to initiate a domain transfer
> - the registry sends a token to the registrant
> - the registrant has to forward this token to the registrar
> - the registrar has to send the token back to the registry in
>   combination with the domain transfer information
> 
> Due to this process we need two steps for the domain transfer
> (token request and transaction itself).
> 
> The token can be defined with EPP extensions easily. But we couldn't
> find a nice solution for the two step transfer.

I think you ought to be able to do this.  As far as I know, all
ICANN-regulated registries do a two-step transfer.  When a transfer
request comes in, we return 1001 ("Command completed successfully;
action pending").  The transfer may be explicitly acknowledged with
an "op" attribute set to "approve" or "reject".  It seems to me that
what you need is an extension for the "approve" case, which can
contain the token from the registrant (that would prove that the
losing registrar has been contacted by the registrant, who has
approved the transfer).  Maybe I'm overlooking something in the rest
of your explanation?

A


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