Hello all,

At the Sydney ICANN meeting I had the opportunity to attend a session of
the "Registration Abuse Policies Working Group", which I believe is a
GNSO subcommittee that encourages participation from outside GNSO.

Well, that's the theory. What I found at that meeting was a room full of
vested interests and contracted partied, determined to report to ICANN
that the only real form of registration abuse is that of trademark abuse.

When I dared mention at the Sydney session that some people consider
domaining and domain speculation to be a form of "abuse", I received
what I believed to be some abuse of my own. While Beau and Patrick were
also at the meeting, I was left alone to take the multi-voiced attack
from those who seemed insulted that I should even raise the issue.

Now, I know that not everyone within At-Large is an opponent of domain
speculation. But I would like to get some guidance -- or some opinions