Re: [ga] so you want to become a registry?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:07:28AM +0100,
 Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> I think this is great news - especially the smaller ccTLDs, which
> still have to experience mass registrations, could benefit from such a
> tool to help them afford the growth. 

A warning: in its present state, OpenReg is unusable for a small
ccTLD. Why? Because it implements only one interface to the outside
world: the EPP interface. 

If you are a medium or big ccTLD, no problem, your registrars love EPP
and they will provide the rest (mostly the various Web forms used by
the registrants and the staff).

But the small ccTLDs have no registrars. They are supposed to provide
the registry *and* registrar functions. Of course, it can be developed
over OpenReg and this would be a very welcome addition. But, at the
present time, there is no free "free as in free speech, not free as in
free beer" Web application for the registrar function. And it is not
an obvious task. Zope, SkunkWeb, mod_perl, CherryPy coders may apply
:-)

The software distributed gratis by the brazilian NIC could be a better
response for the small ccTLDs. Unfortunately, it is not free "free as
in free speech, not free as in free beer". And, technically, I prefer
OpenReg which is more modular, a very important characteristic for a
registry since no program will do everything you need.

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