--On Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:19 -0500 "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is another unfortunate community habit that I have > noticed. > It is, I believe, a consequence o their being simply too much > stuff to look at. Of course, having too much stuff to look at is ultimately a consequence of the inability of the Steering Group to prioritize and structure work enough (even if it means saying "no" to reasonable, but less-important, proposals) that the number of things people (and they) have to look at bears a reasonable relationship to available time and resources. That really fundamental problem is one that restrictions on PowerPoint or presentations, or even ideas about how to fast-track some work, are not going to fix. In fairness to the IESG, it is also impossible for them to fix unless the community is willing to support their saying "no" or "insufficient resources" to some proposals for WGs or for work within WGs. But, as long as they simply accept almost all proposals that "someone wants to work on" and that are not obviously technically stupid, there is no chance of knowing whether the community would support pushing back on lower-priority work. > If you have a working group that is considering new ideas > (looking to recharter), you are more likely to get folks to > read the draft, either before or shortly after the meeting, if > you get a presentation slot in the meeting. In particular, if > the presentation sounds interesting, he odds of readership go > up. >... Yes, but see above. best, john