At 10:23 AM 8/30/01 -0700, William X Walsh wrote:
>Thursday, Thursday, August 30, 2001, 9:46:34 AM, Michael Schultheiss wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine just transferred his domain from NetSol to OpenSRS and
> > had to ACK a message from Netsol (reply and put a specific string, with
> > =YES at the end) in order to get the transfer to go through. Once it
> > was acked, it went through within a couple days.
>
>Yeah, nothing's changed at NSI on their ACK policy. Our transfers are
>being required to ACK NSI as well.
We do know that some are sailing through without the ACK process. Hard to
tell at this time whether this is somehow intentional, or just a hole. And
if it is a hole, how to, ummm, take advantage of it.
>That letter that was referenced was to the Verisign Registry, and it
>was only the opinion of ICANN's General Counsel, nothing binding or
>forcing or indicating a change of NSI's current outbound transfer
>process.
Indeed, the war is not over, but a battle won.
sA
