I think I agree with Skeeve on this; I support Dean's concept as an option, and perhaps even as a "best practice" - but not mandatory, and not with enforced minimum timeframes for discussion. I would like to see direct submission of a proposal to always be an option, as there may well be times when the issue is obvious or simple enough that preliminary discussion is simply unnecessary. Perhaps the chairs could have a right to force a submitted proposal into an on-list discussion of problem statement before publishing the proposal, if the chairs consider the proposal for some reason to be too ill-defined or inappropriate as submitted. Regards, David On 5/09/2012 3:31 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: I am not so sure about this.
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