RE: ".au" registry technical specification

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

Bruce,

I read the specification slightly differently: they don't wish to mandate
use of the current IETF specs because there is no standard yet, and there
aren't any open implementations.  Both issues seem more-or-less reasonable
given that we haven't yet produced any draft standards.  I wouldn't want to
mandate anything either until things were more solid.

FWIW there _is_ at least one open client implementation being done on
SourceForge; perhaps Dan Manley or Rick Wesson can fill in details or
provide insights into that implementation and any server-side work that's
being done.

<Scott/>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Tonkin [mailto:Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au]
>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:05 AM
>To: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
>Subject: ".au" registry technical specification
>
>
>Monash University in Australia has written a technical 
>specification for the
>".au" registry.
>
>See:
>http://www.auda.org.au/transition/Registry_Tech_Spec_101.pdf
>
>Note section 2.2, where a new registry/registrar protocol is 
>proposed on the
>basis that the barriers are too high for registrars to use 
>EPP, and there
>are no open implementations of EPP available.
>
>I would be interested in the views of members of the working 
>group on this
>issue.
>
>If it is too hard to implement the IETF standard there will be 
>little take
>up outside a few gtlds.
>
>Bruce Tonkin
>