Brian, As part of the proposed "Thick Whois Concensus Policy" tabled by ICANN, it would eventually be mandatory for registrars to supply that information to registries, and for registries to store it and publish it to WHOIS/RDAP.
https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rdds-output-2015-12-03-en That is why this extension is being proposed. Cheers, Ben On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Brian Mountford <[email protected]> wrote: > Pardon my lack of familiarity, but are these proposed EPP extensions > (supporting reseller information) designed for use in communicating with > registries, or only by registrars? I work at a registry, and had been under > the impression that registrars would not want to share with us any > information about who the reseller might be, for fear of divulging what > their reseller network looks like. That complicates our life under certain > circumstances, so if there is the possibility that registrars could send us > information about the reseller of a domain, I'd like to know more! Thanks. > > Brian Mountford > Google Registry > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts >> directories. >> This draft is a work item of the Registration Protocols Extensions of the >> IETF. >> >> Title : Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Reseller >> Mapping >> Authors : Linlin Zhou >> Ning Kong >> Guiqing Zhou >> Xiaodong Lee >> James Gould >> Filename : draft-ietf-regext-reseller-00.txt >> Pages : 30 >> Date : 2016-06-06 >> >> Abstract: >> This document describes an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) >> mapping for provisioning and management of reseller object stored in >> a shared central repository. Specified in Extensible Markup Language >> (XML), this extended mapping is applied to provide additional >> features required for the provisioning of resellers. >> >> >> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-regext-reseller/ >> >> There's also a htmlized version available at: >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-regext-reseller-00 >> >> >> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of >> submission >> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. >> >> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: >> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> regext mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext >> > > > _______________________________________________ > regext mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext > > -- Benoit Levac VP Engineering, Registry Platform[image: Rightside] <http://www.rightside.co/>*Office* | 425-298-2337 *Mobile* | 613-617-4416 [email protected] www.rightside.co
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