Alan Greenberg wrote:
the effort involved a great cooperative effort from a number of people, including those from the Registrar and Registry Constituencies who were made out to be the devils during a lot of this process.
The Registrars still earned their hellish standing, holding out to the very end and preventing a consensus decision in the face of widespread approval. They certainly were never on the side of doing the right thing and I fail to see how they contributed to the "cooperative effort" that saw the measure pass. As for Registries... judgment is reserved. They fought the process to right near the end but supported it at the last moment. This suggests a politically motivated change rather than one based on principle. Still, in the end a yes vote counts regardless of why it was cast, so this must be seen as a positive. - Evan