Transfer policy working group

[farzaneh badii]

As some of you know Wisdom and I represent NCSG at the Transfer policy
group.

This group is very important especially for operational side of things when
domain name registrants want to transfer their domain name from one
registrar to another.

Some issues that have been raised:

There is generally some hostility towards multi-factor authentication and
 making it compulsory for registrars to provide it for the registrant.
Some argue that resellers don’t have the means either. Akinremi, Wisdom and
I discussed this and we believe that the more secure transfer the better.
But also it came up whether we are asking for multifactor authentication to
the panel or just when the authentication code for the transfer is being
issued. We believe pushing for both is good but well since this is transfer
policy group might be stretching it.

Some questions that we have from you especially if there are non-commercial
resellers here (because sometimes individuals have reseller credentials
doing things privately) or if you are a domain name registrant whether you
are comfortable with multi-factor authentication.

In general I sense that the policy group lacks two things: a desire for
coming up with a policy (they don’t want to bind themselves to anything
which well defeats the purpose of our work!) and we lack the domain name
registrants voice. Registrars and ICANN talk about their experience which
is good but I still think would have been nice to hear from the
registrants.

There bound to be some privacy issues that come up later on but we have not
been dealing with that yet.


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Farzaneh
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