"Adult supervision"

[Keith Moore]

> > working groups choose to be derailed.
> 
> Note Keith, this type of language is polarizing and NOT helpful or
> constructive. You make it sound like WGs willingly get derailed as if
> they like doing this. From where I sit, I see WGs get derailed for
> lots of reasons, but it's not like the WG as a whole choses
> this. Sometimes it's caused by individuals, or topics, etc., but it's
> not appropriate to say WGs choose to do this. Or to imply that they
> somehow _want_ to do this.

Sorry, it seems obvious to me.  Anytime someone makes a big investment
in something without investigating what is needed for that investment to
succeed, they're making choices which will are likely to lead to
expensive failure.  That's not the same thing as saying that they wanted
to fail.

Keith