On 9 Apr 2016, at 6:19 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I do think one possible outcome needs to be added: > > X. That the results of the experiment suggest that the changes made > in Section 2 are damaging and should not be applied again; > > I regard this as unlikely, but I disagree with the comment that the > experiment is bound to succeed. I can think of a number of failure > scenarios, several of which would cause the NomCom chair to abort > the process. My comment was that anything short of a disaster is bound to be considered a success. IOW an outcome that is somewhat worse than the current situation will be indistinguishable from success. Yoav