[registrars] New transfer policy concerns

["Marcus Faure" <faure@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am beginning to ask myself if the enforcement of the new transfer policy
will take effect on November 12. I will share my experience with verisign and
pir as we are responsible for the communication with these registries inside
CORE.

- Both registries have not published any documentation or software regarding
  registry changes, e.g. transfer undos

- verisign has not confirmed that they will use authinfo codes after epp 
  transition

- verisign told us there is no "dead end" date for rrp, meaning some registrars
  will be on epp and some may stay on rrp (forever?). There is no information
  how transfers will work between rrp and epp registrars

- verisign will stay thin, whois standardization is not around. This means that
  all existing registrars will have to implement a new whois parser for each
  new registrar that show up. This can't be it.

And these are only the major issues.
I wonder how we should solve this before November.

Yours,
Marcus