I was looking for registrar tools at the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), and I was led to their proposal with the Internet Multicasting Services to run the .ORG domain.

Their very interesting proposal mentions that they are using the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), which is ironically developed by Verisign.

I built and downloaded the EPP Registrar Toolkit Java implementation. Since I could find no server code, I hope the .ORG team will come up with one. I posted a comment at Carl Malamud's page and eagerly await the chance to hack at EPP server code.

The implementation of the BEEP protocol has been known to me from the Jabber mailing lists, but I haven't read on it in-depth until now. I got the Java implementation and will be trying out projects that make use of it.

I just love infrastructure code!