On May 15, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Adrian Farrel <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I suggest that the former is a bad result. Not that the authors/WG will ignore > the discussion, but if they disagree on something the AD considers very > important, the authors/WG have no incentive to participate in the discussion. Of > course, all participants in this thread so far would never behave like that, but > there is a possibility that this will happen for some authors. This can also happen purely by accident—it need not involve malice on anyone's part.