At 7:21 PM +0000 1/18/05, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au> ... I am interested to hear what members of the NANOG list believe would be a better transfers process.
The notion of "REGISTRAR LOCK" is simply too weak, it can be flipped in minutes. I want something that presents only limited windows of state change (other than NS) opportunity, which I can syncronize to corporate standard paperwork flag days, so it isn't when I hand the keys to the shop to a junior and take the kids on holiday.
It appears that "REGISTRAR LOCK" has interesting per-registrar implementation variations which do not always put the domain holder's interests first. While the registry does not, per se, have a direct business interest with the domain holder, it should be possible to have a lock state which is more oriented to the critical needs of some business domain holders. For a reasonable fee (and copious amount of documentation), it should be possible for any record holder to instruct the registry to lock the ownership of a domain down in such a way so as to require a similar amount of paperwork to release; thus effectively creating an "OWNER LOCK" state. /John