Dave Crocker wrote: ... > If folks > have not yet read draft-huston-ietf-pact-00, they should read it now. If you think that mechanistic rules will improve quality, then yes, do read it. A remark I wanted to make last night is that a fair number of the phenomena that people don't like (such as noticing a problem late) are pretty much inevitable and in the "deal with it" class. Mechanistic rules won't help. A less complicated world would help, but that option isn't avaialable. I do strongly agree on the need for delegation, but that delegates responsibility and liability, not just the fun of reading 2000 pages of drafts. So it's easily said, but not easily done. Brian