Hi Farza,

Thanks for this information, It's an interesting issue. I didnt know
about that WG
I am confuse about "Non commercial reseller" because reseller means
buy&sell, so commercial
Anyway, I think that the challenge is to advocate for a policy to
clarify these observations

best

2021-09-21 19:09 UTC+01:00, farzaneh badii <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Farzaneh
>