hi,

For the most part  i do not believe this happens.

i have been in many groups where changes were made in the plans because of comments.

but as usual, not everyones comment changes things.  the people who worked in the groups discuss, and often have reasons to change what they are doing, but sometimes don't.  So when i make a recommendation and it does not change things i may decide they never listen to anyone, but they do.  and in many case there are countervailing opinions.

so it may be a cute new word, and i am sure it can be applied in many case to what governments do - when they even bother to collect the opinions, but i do not think it applies to ICANN in the majority of cases.

a.

On 3 Aug 2010, at 23:53, David Cake wrote:

> 	A useful neologism for ICANN processes (via Lillian Edwards twitter feed)
> Crowdstamping - going through the motions in asking the public about a policy but rubberstamping it anyway.
> 	(term apparently coined by Uk web developer Stef Lewandowski in reponse to UK government consultation that, in response to 9,500 public submissions,resulted in every responding government dept uniformly saying they should keep doing exactly what they were doing)
> 	Regards
> 		David