[registrars] Proliferation of registrar locks

["Paul Lecoultre(CORE secretariat)" <secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Registrars,

With the introduction of the new transfer policy and the dispute resolution
policy, it turned out that more and more registrars took this opportunity to
"protect", i.e. lock their domains.

I see a major issue on this behaviour as neither the transfer policy nore
the dispute resolution policy consider this clearly. Unless registars
agree upon some minimal rules regarding locks, the whole transfer
policy may be become mute.

We would like to raise this point on the next meeting in Cape Town. I
suggest that the registrar constituency propose a consensus
view as to how registrars are expected to handle locks in the
context of transfers.

It is probably prudent to allocate ample time for this discussion. If
we fail to come up with a view on this subject, we could suddenly find
all domains placed on lock by default.

Best regards,

PauL Lecoultre

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