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