Hello Mario,
On 05.03.26 09:18, Mario Loffredo wrote:
[ML] Regarding registrar costs, I'd like to point out that, based on the experience of .it, managing
a TCP connection is much more complex than managing an HTTP session for clients. Implementers are
more accustomed to sending requests via HTTP rather than TCP, and their work is supported by
frameworks and libraries that relieve them of many implementation details, such as managing the HTTP
session through the exchange of session cookie. At .it we have several small registrars and none of
them have complained about the implementation effort required to create a client capable of
interacting with the EPP server.
Just because we didn't complain (after all, what good would that have done? ccTLDs do as they please
anyway) doesn't mean we liked it. Working for two registrars tasked with connecting to all kinds of
registries, I actually found it pretty annoying having to deal with registries like .it or .pl using
HTTP instead of TCP for their EPP servers.
I don't think you can sell this HTTP thing as a benefit to registrars.
Once registrars have a proper EPP-over-TCP toolkit in place, the hard part is done and they can
connect to any registry using that protocol. Any deviations will only cause more work.
The only prospect of use for registrars would be if *all* registries switched to HTTP without
exception, but that's not going to happen.
Best regards,
Thomas
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