Steve,
Setting aside the question of whether or not this step in the process is
necessary, you have not indicated its value. More precisely, how are
you going to evaluate the results?
To state it differently, what does it mean for folks to vote? You
didn't ask folks to indicate if they had read the documents and are
familiar with the issues. Since the posture of the principal players is
already known, how is a count of folks who may very well be unfamiliar
with the issues going to improve your assessment of the working group?
Further, I think that 3 weeks is entirely too long a period of time.
One week should be more than plenty. PEM-DEV has not been suffering in
the least from activity during this holiday period. Clearly, all of the
principal players are present and accounted for and I'm willing to bet
the vast majority of the non-principal players are also present.
Jim