[wg-c] ballot stuffing

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

Looks like the trademark community needed about a day to get organized.

For the first day of  wg-c (re-)balloting on the matter of 6-10 new gTLDs , 
regular participants responded readily and overwhelmingly 
positively.  Notable is that the support is from the full range of regular 
participants, no matter how strongly they might have disagreed about other 
matters, in the past.

Yesterday and today we see a large number of new names, many voting 
no.  Most appear to have affiliations that suggest an underlying concern 
about brand protection.  Those adding comments to their votes raise very 
old issues, thereby suggesting entirely entrenched positions and no 
willingness to compromise.  (If they are so concerned about the points they 
raise, why did they not participate in any of the many months of discussion?)

This highlights the difficulties in the process.  An open process based on 
rough consensus requires a broad commitment towards making forward 
progress.  A well-organized community can too readily side-track or block work.

d/

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