At 9/24/01 12:29 PM, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>More on this later....it's an important bit however.
>
>[snip]
>
>Larry Erlich wrote:
> > What this all boils down to again is that it
> > is up to the gaining registrar to take the necessary
> > precautions prior to making a transfer request,
> > and that you can't restrict this to a strict definition
> > of who has the authority to agree to make these changes.
> > ("Only Admin, "only Registrant" - it depends on the
> > circumstances). The definition of "apparent authority"
> > (below) seems to support this.
> >
> > This will probably not sit well with registrars
> > that would like to have highly automated systems
> > in order to facilitate transfers. I think in the end
> > what we are going to see is that in order to maintain
> > some protection, a human is going to have to
> > get involved in the transfer process.
> >
> > This would also seem to support the conclusion
> > that under certain circumstances an AUTO NACK
> > might be appropriate (note that I didn't say
> > ALL, I said CERTAIN).
This is scary and unacceptable. They're trying to make transfers MORE
problematic than they currently are.
The administrative contact should have final say over the domain name.
It's that simple. If you start asking registrars to guess who they think
is the authority, then things are going to go to hell in a hurry.
The process needs to be automatizable. Anything else will lead to
difficulties far beyond what we've seen so far. Whether parties accept
language in an ISPs contract delegating responsibility is irrelevant,
because that's not what they're really trying to do here: they're trying
to make it so that they can deny a transfer on a whim whenever more than
one contact appears in the WHOIS. They'll claim that the contact the
gaining registrar chose was not the one they think authoritative and
demand a notarized letter from all contacts to resolve it. I can just see
it now.
These other registrars are starting to really tick me off. And I only
read the excerpts Ross provides; Ross, you're a better person than I am
if you can put up with this stuff.
--
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
