The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Allocation Token Extension for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)' (draft-ietf-regext-allocation-token-12.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-allocation-token/ Technical Summary This document describes an Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) extension for including an Allocation Token in "query" and "transform" commands. The Allocation Token is used as a credential that authorizes a client to request the allocation of a specific object from the server, using one of the EPP transform commands including create and transfer. Working Group Summary The document has received substantial review, both at face-to-face meetings and on the regext mailing list. The shepherd's writeup contains significant detail of these reviews. Consensus was smooth, with no major disagreements arising in the working group. Document Quality Four implementations by three companies are documented. All four are currently in production use. All EPP XML examples have been validated against the XML schema provided in the draft by the Document Shepherd. Personnel The document shepherd is Patrick Mevzek, pm@dotandco.com The responsible Area Director is Adam Roach, adam@nostrum.com