On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:09:26AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > I've been watching several "WG adoption" threads since Prague, > and I have a question. > > Is it useful for authors of a draft to send messages saying things > like "I support the adoption of this draft as a WG document." ? As others have said, it's not quite noise. How much signal there is depends on whether the authors themselves sought adoption of the draft: if they didn't then it's pure signal, otherwise it's noise but expected and mostly harmless. FWIW, Nico --