Dave, > 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. This sort of constraint is a safe guard against run away working group chairs attempting to ram through changes by silencing people who have not read the latest draft that came out while people were traveling to the event. Eliot _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf