Editing Extensible Provisioning Protocol (section)

==Adoption==
The protocol has been adopted by a number of ccTLD domain name registries, such as: [[.ac]], [[.ag]], [[.ai]], [[.as]], [[.ar]], [[.at]], [[.au]], [[.be]], [[.br]], [[.bz]], [[.ca]], [[.cat]], [[.cc]], [[.ch]], [[.cl]], [[.cn]], [[.co]], [[.cr]], [[.cx]], [[.cz]], [[.dk]], [[.dm]], [[.ee]], [[.es]] (over HTTPS), [[.eu]], [[.fi]], [[.fm]], [[.fr]], [[.gg]], [[.gr]] (over HTTPS), [[.gs]], [[.hn]], [[.ht]], [[.il]], [[.im]], [[.in]], [[.io]], [[.it]] (over HTTPS),  [[.je]], [[.ke]], [[.ki]], [[.ky]], [[.kz]], [[.la]], [[.lc]], [[.li]], [[.lt]], [[.lu]], [[.lv]], [[.md]], [[.me]], [[.mk]], [[.mn]], [[.ms]], [[.mu]], [[.mx]], [[.na]], [[.nf]], [[.ng]], [[.nl]], [[.no]], [[.nu]], [[.nz]], [[.pe]], [[.pk]], [[.pl]] (over HTTPS), [[.ps]], [[.pt]], [[.ru]], [[.ro]], [[.sc]], [[.se]], [[.sh]], [[.si]], [[.su]], [[.tl]], [[.tm]] [[.tv]], [[.tw]], [[.ua]], [[.uk]], [[.us]], [[.vc]], [[.ve]] and [[.za]] as well as [[ENUM]] registries such as those operating the +31, +41, +43, +44 and +48 country codes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-01-15 |title=Implementation Report for RFCs 4930-4934 - Wayback Machine |url=http://www.ietf.org/iesg/implementation/report-rfc4930-4934.txt |access-date=2023-03-12 |archive-date=2012-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115070825/http://www.ietf.org/iesg/implementation/report-rfc4930-4934.txt |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

[[ICANN]] has made it a condition in their base registry contract to offer an EPP service. Therefore, every [[Generic top-level domain|gTLD]] has adopted the protocol.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ICANN base registry contract |url=https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/agreement-approved-31jul17-en.html#specification6.1 |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=newgtlds.icann.org}}</ref>

There are multiple [[open source]] implementations of EPP server software. The Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA) maintains an EPP server software used by around 59 ccTLDs and six gTLDs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Official CoCCA website |url=https://cocca.org.nz/ |access-date=2023-03-12}}</ref> Another open source software is FRED (maintained by [[CZ.NIC]]) which counts 11 ccTLDs as its users.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Introducing FRED - fred |url=https://fred.nic.cz/en/ |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=fred.nic.cz}}</ref>