On 02/27/2013 01:49 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
On Feb 27, 2013, at 19:18, ned+ietf(_at_)mauve(_dot_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
routing around obstacles
It turns out for most people the easiest route around is submitting in time.
That is actually what counts here: how does the rule influence the behavior of
people.
Chair hat: WORKSFORME. (And, if I could decide it, WONTFIX.)
+1.
As far as I can tell, the deadline actually serves the purpose of
getting people to focus on IETF and update their documents sufficiently
prior to the meeting, that it's reasonable to expect meeting
participants to read the drafts that they intend to discuss. And I say
this as someone who, as an author, has often found the deadline to be
very inconvenient.
Keith