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Re: Issue with -00 cut-off



In message <200306112047.h5BKlD824857@windsor.research.att.com>, Bill Fenner wr
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>>I guess... The usual case where this crops up is when a document
>>author submits a -00 document after the deadline, not realizing
>>that it applies to his/her updated document.  So, I'm not sure
>>we'll save an interaction...
>
>I think the advantage is that "the chair sent in a -00 draft" is
>self-contained; there is no "this is a -00, must ask the chair, wait
>for an answer, correlate that answer which may come a few days
>later with the draft that is now hundreds of drafts ago".

Precisely -- the Secretariat would need to create state and process a 
second input interrupt.

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