Brian Carpenter said:
"I'm afraid that this would allow people to game the IETF by abusing
the SG mechanism to give their effort an appearance of open-ended
status. We probably don't want to see CV's including lines like
"chair of IETF foobar Study Group, 2008-2011"."
That would be scary indeed. The basic idea is to provide clear goals and
feedback on status -- and encourage the participants to make quick
progress. Nothing clears the mind better than an upcoming deadline,
particularly one that is difficult to extend.
Frankly, if a SG can't come up with consensus on a WG charter and an
explanation of why the RFC 2418 criteria are satisfied within the 6 to 12
month initial milestone, the odds of WG success are not very good either.
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