On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 3:38 PM Alan Greenberg, <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Let us hypothesize that there are 4 billion users and 2% of them are gTLD registrants (80,000,000). Does that mean that Hadia and I should push strongly for law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals to have good access most of the time, but for 2% of the time we strongly support those who want to minimize their access because they do not believe that there is sufficient justification to infringe on registrant privacy (ie the "privacy fetishists ;-) )?
If that is the split, 98 to 2... Given what I originally said, that clearly falls under "rough consensus", if the determination is clear on what the non-registrant end user PoV is. Consensus does not demand unanimity. Never did. But that balance is pretty overwhelming. That will not give us much credibility!
I disagree. Credibility is based on honesty and sincerity, not dogmatism. The expectation that the global end user community speaks with a monolithic single viewpoint is what isn't credible. Cheers, Evan