[gnso-vi-feb10] The missing part

["Roberto Gaetano" <roberto@xxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message of mine I wrote "see below", and.. There was nothing
below.
The point I wanted to make is that it is high time to close the
door/window/hole/pipe/. for new proposals.
Mikey and myself had a chat today, and ended up in agreement (this is
actually becoming boring, where are the good old times when co-chairs where
bitterly fighting?) that we are moving from a phase in which we have
proposals to choose from to a phase in which we have to analyse the items in
each proposal.
In simple words, if anybody would present a new proposal now, I bet it would
be at least 90% covered by some other proposal already on the table. So why
not simplify the life of everybody, and instead of presenting a full
proposal, you don't just say: "On item XYZ, we believe the right approach is
blahblahblah".
We are already starting identifying the "atomic elements" (please forgive me
for the reference to my day job) in the "molecular" proposals, Mike Zupke
has already a first shot on this. I think that more molecules would not add
much more to the discussion, so why don't we focus on the atoms? Mikey and
myself would be inclined to close the window for new proposals, so if you
*really* have a new approach you want to submit as a proposal, please do
tell us in the next 24h, otherwise we will close the window.
Cheers,
Roberto