<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 nov 2014, at 11:11, Mehmet Akcin <<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net" class="">mehmet@akcin.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">any pros/cons you can think of this being enabled by default other than obvious additional steps being required for domain transfers, and this adding burden for registrars, etc.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Because different registries do implement lock differently (if at all) and registrars to implement lock want one standardized way to do it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Remember the world is not only gTLDs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is yet another difference that separates registrars from each other. I.e. market economy forces at work. Like many other factors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is only one of many.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Patrik</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>