"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote in message news:d4lpbs$ftq$1@sea.gmane.org...
| | If you want to be sure to avoid wasted work you need to participate in | the committee process and build consensus on the reflectors between | meetings... and even then it is possible to fail. Dave H. didn't do | that AFAICT. There's no good reason to think that Andrei's impression | that "people really liked the idea" should be enough to ensure that | the next proposal would be accepted.
but how should people know if their proposal has got a chance if not by asking?
It makes sense sometimes to ask if there is interest in a proposal. But no one should consider "interest" to imply any kind of commitment. It doesn't make sense to ask the LWG (let alone the committee as a whole) to pre-approve a proposal they haven't seen. They won't do it. --Beman