<div dir="ltr">I agree with everybody.  It&#39;s definitely helpful.  At the same time, we should consciously avoid privileging early comments in any fashion.  If these first submissions are any indication, that might not be too difficult.<div><br></div><div>We should also avoid the opposite. I seem to recall discussions in my college psych courses of two cognitive biases: the &quot;primacy effect&quot; and the &quot;recency effect.&quot; While this is not really the same thing, it may be a useful analogy.  Milton cautions us against something analogous to the &quot;primacy effect,&quot; if I recall correctly.  We should also caution ourselves against something like the &quot;recency effect.&quot;  In other words, we should not let the order in which comments come in influence our attention to them.</div><div><br></div><div>Greg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Gomes, Chuck <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cgomes@verisign.com" target="_blank">cgomes@verisign.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">As you would probably guess my previous comment Milton, I disagree.  It is not perfect but for me I find it helpful.  Anyone who doesn’t find it helpful can
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Milton L Mueller<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 03, 2014 10:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernard Turcotte; <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWG-Stewardship] CWG - Public Comment summary for Wednesday December 3rd<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">Appreciate the attempt but I am not sure this is a good idea. If this public comment period is like every one I have ever seen before, 90% of the comments will
 come on the day of the deadline or perhaps a day before. The running log therefore kind of privileges early comments as they trickle in. Then we will be hit with a deluge at the end anyway. Might be better to look at all comments after they all come in.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bernard Turcotte<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 3, 2014 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cwg-stewardship@icann.org" target="_blank">cwg-stewardship@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CWG-Stewardship] CWG - Public Comment summary for Wednesday December 3rd<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This will be part of a daily log of public comments to assist us on in keeping track of the various postings.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For December 2nd we have the following:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Current system with NTIA is doing a good job and wants it maintained.</b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Refers to a US supreme court case about .com (?) involving a number of parties including ICANN and suggesting that the transition work not proceed until this is resolved.</b><u></u><u></u></p>
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