The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Launch Phase Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' (draft-ietf-regext-launchphase-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Registration Protocols Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adam Roach, Alexey Melnikov and Ben Campbell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-regext-launchphase/ Technical Summary This document describes an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) extension mapping for the provisioning and management of domain name registrations and applications during the launch of a domain name registry. Working Group Summary This document has been widely discussed on the mailing lists of the regext, eppext and provreg working groups. The authors have addressed all comments and many changes have been incorporated in the document. Document Quality ICANN has required of all participants in the newGTLD program to implement some version of this document. Verisign, Neustar, CentralNIC and others have working implementations of this specification. Personnel The document shepherd is Ulrich Wisser. The responsible Area Director is Adam Roach.
