Working groups are expensive. Very expensive.
To me this discussion shows that documents are as expensive as working groups, and maybe more so. Unless the document is relatively straight forward, it's easier for someone doing an individual draft to be funneled to a working group so that there's a first round of review.
In fact, a working group that doesn't produce anything seems pretty darn cheap, especially if it doesn't meet.
Eliot
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