Problem statement draft comments

[Keith Moore]

> When consensus has been sought on the mailing list, the number of actual 
> responses is limited in the order of double digits while number of people
> subscribed to the mailing list is in the order of 1000~2000. 

not that I doubt the general trend, but is this size typical?  for the
WG mailing lists I've run, the number of subscribers was closer to 100-200.

Keith