Re: [RRG] December meeting: call for contributions

[Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:23 AM, David Kessens wrote:

> I understand this and I have no problem with that. What I was looking
> for is a bit more of a timeline until which time we keep looking at
> different proposals. Basically, deadlines work real well to get people
> motivated to send in their proposals and to get them more refined to
> the point where they are stable enough for a serious analysis.
>
> To say it in a different way: what is the plan to get from here to the
> recommendation ?


David,

Unfortunately, research seldom works to schedule, and establishing a
timeline now would probably result in us converging on a half-baked
solution.  I don't think we do anyone a favor if we make a flawed
rush to judgement.

That said, yes, I would like to see us move more rapidly.  If you have
suggestions on how we could otherwise accelerate the process, I'd
love to hear about it.

My guess is that we could motivate more researchers if we could actually
provide funding, but I'm not quite ready to start holding bake  
sales.  ;-)

Tony

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