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On 3/1/2017 8:04 AM, Michael Richardson
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FWIW, industry often doesn't let out ideas until filing preliminary patents, which has a similar effect.I understand that in academia, they never like letting half-baked ideas out, and so the -00 that we see from academics are often overdue and overly polished. AFAICT, the speed of an -00 is more tightly correlated to the motivation for the document. When a WG has a known need for a particular doc, the -00 comes out earlier (pull model). When an idea is driven by the doc itself (push model), it's more useful to have enough in place to have a useful discussion about. That said, I really wish that -00s that aren't pull-driven would try to stay under 5 pages of content. Dumping dozens of pages and asking for feedback isn't a good way to start a discussion. Joe |