Organisation objects and commands
We will be introducing Organisation objects defined in RFC8543 and the related extension RFC8544 in the second testbed release for the .UK transition but we plan to support them more widely across our registries in the future. Role values for organisation objects are defined within the IANA Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Organization Role Values registry.
We will initially support registrars creating organisations with one or more of the following roles:
- reseller – to link domains, hosts and contacts to reseller accounts.
- privacyproxy – for identifying data related to proxy providers.
We will display the data in RESELLER and PRIVACYPROXY objects on the RDAP output for the registry for domains utilising them.
Resellers
Where a domain, host or contact object is created by a reseller the object should be linked by a registrar with RFC8544 to the reseller organisation object so that appropriate reseller information will be displayed on the Registration Data Directory Services output. This will enable a wholesale registrar to identify which reseller has the rights to make requests in relation to the domain and to ensure we can publish reseller contact details within the RDDS.
Please note resellers are bespoke per registrar and the transition of a domain between registrars will result in the reseller being removed from related domains and sub-ordinate hosts, and the newly cloned contact object will not retain the reseller link.
Proxy Providers
To comply with a need to identify contact data belonging to a proxy provider rather than an underlying registrant or other contact, registrars should link only the contact object to a proxy provider; this ensures we have clarity that the data held within the contact object is not the true beneficiary but a proxy on their behalf.
Organisation Object
An organisation object is made up of the following data points, further details can be found in RFC8543:
| Field | Description | Visible to non-sponsoring registrar without Transfer Authorisation code when not publicly disclosed by policy or disclosure fields? |
|---|---|---|
| org:id | The unique organisation EPP ID which will be used to link the organisation object to other objects. | Yes |
| org:roid | The unique repository object identifier, over time, for the organisation object. | Yes |
| org:role | Roles the organisation holds and includes: org:type org:status org:roleID | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:status | The status of the object – i.e. if it is linked. | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:parentID | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. | |
| org:postalInfo | The postal address of the organisation. | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:voice | The telephone number of the organisation. | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:fax | Fax number of the organisation. | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:email | Email address of the organisation. | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:url | The URL for the organisation. | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:contact | Contacts for the organisation | Yes, for organisation types “reseller” and “privacyproxy” as they are intended to be public information. |
| org:clID | The EPP login ID that controls the organisation object. | Yes |
| org:crID | The EPP login ID for that created the organisation object. | Yes |
| org:crDate | The create date of the organisation. | Yes |
| org:upID | The EPP login ID for that updated the organisation object. | Yes |
| org:upDate | The update date of the organisation. | Yes |
Organisation commands
Further details to come.
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