Re: Design Teams (was "v 1.2, IETF material")

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

>Further, experience shows that some people (Frank's J-Random) just don't
>read or listen.  You could drop a truck-load of work on them and it just
>wouldn't help.

Marshall,

  I have no idea what to do about it procedurally--and would prefer, I
think, to do nothing about it procedureally because procedural solutions
to these things rarely work--but I suspect that there are some instances
of J-Random who would rewrite that sentence to say "experience shows
that some design teams... just don't read...".

  There is a natural human tendency on the part of the ad hoc designing/
drafting groups whom we are glorifying with the label of "design team"
to believe that, since they have studied the issues carefully and in a
concentrated way, they have the right answers.  Doesn't mean, usually,
that their minds cannot be changed but sometimes, especially where
aesthetic judgements are involved, it may take more than one loop or
more evidence than would ordinarily be required to get a change.

  That is, of course, especially true if design team members are
involved with prototype efforts or the equivalent that imply investments
in the particular decisions already tentatively made by the time the
questions arise.

     john