But one of the reasons for EARLY submission deadline is to ensure that the IETF participants actually get some time to READ/STUDY the documents that need f2f time in IETF WG meetings!
When TCP was improved enough so that it could saturate a ethernet (jumping from a max of 2Mbps to more than 9) there were serious proposals not to implement the improvements, the improvements would permit unfair use of the LAN.
It is pretty much never a good idea to have the mechanics of a process contain artificial constraints, as a means of implementing higher-level policies.
If a working group is worried about documents getting read, they will impose their own deadlines or they will constrain their agenda. Having the Secretariat use an IETF-wide deadline for this purpose is Procrustean, to say the least.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://bbiw.net> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf