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

[Charles E. Perkins]

Hello Thomas,

Perhaps we can agree that it takes time to produce
quality documents, and that sometimes procedural
difficulties extend that time to seemingly unreasonable
lengths.

My original suggestion was that an Area Director should
be expected to be able to point to documentation when
raising major architectural objections to a working group
document.  This expectation should rise linearly as the
working group document progresses.  It is NOT too much
to expect an Area Director to write a two page explanation
when killing or significantly devaluing the efforts of
dozens of people.

I don't want that point to get lost in tautologies about
how documents are hard to write.

Even an Internet Draft would be better than the sometimes
terse snippets of lore that substitute for documentation
in recent memory.  At least then there is the possibility
that some process can lead to some conclusion according to
professional ethics, instead of what could appear to be
arbitrary quashing of something the AD just doesn't like.

Plus, it's not all black and white.  My point is that it's
too gray today.

Regards,
Charlie P.