"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:d4mg0e$gbs$1@sea.gmane.org... | | "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> wrote in message | news:d4lpbs$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. the other case is also interesting: should "no interest" imply any kind of rejection? IMO, yes. -Thorsten