I know it seems at first like a lot of mindless paperwork, but it will
serve to make us agree on what we're doing and how we're going to do
it. I resisted all this at first, too, but the chaos of this
brainstorming phase will kill us if it persists into design and
implementation.
I've got some
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1. Minimized by another culling phase after the RFC freeze
2. Minimized by the sub-working groups. You will notice that the
discussions on the sub-groups are quite localized in people and
discussions are limited. Some groups are noisy but what you are
witnessing is an
