Hey, Overall you are suggesting that WMF changes the policy about anonymity and accept anonymous users. In my view it's not a technical thing and it should be brought up in wikimedia-l.
I agree, it's a matter of consensus which is definitely beyond any technical discussion.
Fair, I had thought that the decision to make the block had primarily been made by us in the technical community as I imagine the average editor knows little to nothing about Tor or other anonymising services.
I'll bring up the topic in another venue.
Some previous discussions on wikitech-l:
Thank you for that list Sumana. I'll give it a look over and might continue to use this thread for anything that comes up from that that does seem appropriate for this list. Based on the number of times this has come up, it does at least appear there is at least some merit to discussing it, or aspects of it, on this list.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott