Anthony, ... --> --> Set a rolling monthly quota, then. Nobody constantly sends a long --> stream of consistently productive messages. --> --> This is simply not true. All one needs to do is publish a crucial document relevant to the working groups charter, and important to understanding the rest of the work, and one will be inundated with questions. The most productive way to deal with questions in a working group is to answer them publicly on the list. To avoid the trip wire, however, most people woul simply answer specific questions off-line. That would be BAD. Debate on work in progress is critical, must be in public at least much of the time and will usually involve a small number of people - authors in particular - who simply must participate. On several occasions, I have seen productive debate on critical drafts take more than a month in some working groups. -- Eric _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf