On 05/01/13 17:43, Ralph Droms allegedly wrote: > On May 1, 2013, at 1:59 PM 5/1/13, Dave Crocker <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I suspect that an earlier exercise at summarizing functional goals and design approaches and issues will have a number of benefits, beyond enabling earlier external review. > > Dave - excellent idea. A summary that explains the "why" first, that promotes early cross-area review or otherwise expands the set of people that look at and understand the nature of the problem and the structure of the specification will allow for earlier review and lighter-weight correction of problems. I forgot to say I like that a lot too. The proponents should be doing that by some means anyway within the WG.