EPP

Acronym: Extensible Provisioning Protocol

A Registry Provisioning Protocol, the Extensible Provisioning Protocol is the work product of the IETF Provisioning/Registration (provreg) Working Group. EPP is a text/XML protocol that permits multiple service providers to perform object provisioning operations using a shared central object repository. Specific implementations of EPP may have slight variances from one another due to the use of the EPP extension mechanisms that allow for implementation specific features and other object management capabilities. EPP is in production use by most gTLD Registry Operators with the exception of VeriSign. VeriSign has made a contractual commitment to migrate the .com and .net registry system to whichever protocol is adopted as a standard by the IETF community.