In article <00e13499-7cea-a79a-7de1-dd9bad4bc530@xxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >While, yes, there will be times that the new folk see something new or >better, that's not the usual occurrence. The usual occurrence is that >folk who are experienced with the topic and are tired from the extended >effort have to rehash their work and defend it to folk who have not done >their homework. Sometimes that's true, but sometimes the situation arises to which John Klensin alluded: a WG does something that crosses topics, and what they decide makes sense from the viewpoint of topic A but not from topic B. I've certainly seen that happen a few times in the recent past. R's, John