[Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Public Comments

Graeme Bunton gbunton at tucows.com
Tue Jul 14 20:18:24 UTC 2015


Hello Again All,

Please find attached a new version of my spreadsheet, which now includes 
about 15 or so missing comments. All of them were templated.

Graeme

On 2015-07-13 11:07 PM, Graeme Bunton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I had a kind developer at Tucows 'screen scrape' all of the PPSAI 
> public comments. This means they wrote a program that essentially 
> visited all*of the comments submitted and captured:
>     -the sender
>     -the subject
>     -the body of the message
>     - a url for any attachments
>     - a url for the comment itself online
>
> To those fields I've added:
>     - Has Attachment (Y/N) - this allows for easy filtering of 
> comments with attachments
>     - NameCheap (Y/N) - this flag is generated if the message body 
> contains the words "regardless of whether the request comes from a 
> private individual" which comes from the templated namecheap comments.**
>     -Word count - allows for sorting by comment length
>
> Screenscraping is never exact, and it has a tough time with some 
> formatting. By and large though it's pretty good and I've found it 
> useful so far for triaging and prioritizing comments.
>
> Caveats:
> * I know it's missing about 15 or so comments, I've figured out a way 
> to identify which are missing and will send those along tomorrow.
> ** There are many namecheap comments where the sender chose to write 
> their own text and therefore the above phrase is not included, these 
> don't have the Y flag.  Similarly, many with the flag will include 
> extra content the sender chose to add.  These can be identified by 
> applying a filter on the namecheap column and then sorting by 
> wordcount. The above phrase was chosen because it was long enough to 
> be unlikely to show up in in other comments. This is obviously not 
> perfect at identify those comments.
>
> With a bit of excel expertise you should be able to filter and sort 
> the submitted comments as you see fit.
>
> We have an obligation to read what's been submitted, and I hope you 
> find the attached makes reading the comments easier, and that it's 
> helpful in understanding what the public is telling us.
>
> Graeme
>
> (Also, apologies to ICANN for the punishment we gave their webservers 
> while testing and scraping the comments)
>
>
>
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Graeme Bunton
Manager, Management Information Systems
Manager, Public Policy
Tucows Inc.
PH: 416 535 0123 ext 1634

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