On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:45 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think it comes down to a few things: 1) bad chairing, 2) > we do a bad job socializing new participants, and 3) a > lot of our participants aren't willing to concede any > points. The third issue is, I think, a combination of > our poor work socialization new participants and a lot > of newer participants having employment incentives around > "winning" at standards work. Yup. And being a good chair is hard, and not particularly pleasant unless you get off on fostering consensus. Of course, that is rather rewarding,,,