While there are some code points that are sufficiently scarce that a standards action remains the appropriate criteria, there are really very few for which that is true.
At this point there is no value to three steps because the requirements for passing the first step are now much higher than they used to be are arguably higher than they used to be for the second step.
That creates something of a potential circle in which to get a draft ready for PROPOSED Standard there is really no substitute for real world deployment and in some cases that is not really viable until after you have the code points.
I suggest that WGs and proto-WGs be encouraged to make use of the EXPERIMENTAL and INFORMATIONAL status drafts for code point assignment in the case that this is necessary to gain real world experience and that this be recognized as an appropriate use of these stages.
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