Time required to write down "wisdom" (Re: "Adult supervision")

[Keith Moore]

> > If the market needs something that screws the users, then it's not Good
> > Enough.  IETF does not exist to bless whatever the market wants, 
> > and especially not to bless whatever marketers think the market wants.
> > We MUST NOT let presumptions about market criteria compel us to accept
> > technically shoddy work.
> 
> Without a doubt, you are correct.  What I meant more is that if we are
> working on a technically valid topic, it helps to get that work completed
> in a reasonable time, so that other groups or companies don't create
> alternatives which may be less sound.  

agreed.  though we probably need to realize that there are cases in which
there is no way to produce a technically sound standard before the market
deploys an inferior solution.