[sv-ec] Mantis backlog and 10/15 meeting

hi EC,

Albeit with some trepidation, I need to express my concern
about the rate of progress we're making through the considerable
backlog of issues that remains outstanding.

The name resolution and (closely related) inline-constraint issues
are undoubtedly of the very greatest importance, but telephone 
discussion in regular EC meetings continues to be unproductive;
the issues are complex and not easily expressed verbally, and 
difficult conflicts remain to be resolved between the protagonists.
Meanwhile there is a backlog of other, much less controversial
items that are of direct practical importance to users and
need to be fixed before the 1800-2008 cutoff.

I, for one, would be prepared to find a non-trivial amount of 
my own time to work on some of those outstanding items, preparing
proposals where none exist and tidying-up existing proposals
where necessary, if I felt confident that EC could address
them in a focused and timely way by email vote and then a very
tightly structured meeting to pick off the stragglers.  To make
this work, we'd need a complete moratorium on telephone discussion
of the name resolution and related issues until the competent
protagonists (amongst whom I certainly don't count myself) can
reach some kind of consensus, or at least can clearly and 
definitively present us with two conflicting proposals and 
an understanding of their respective consequences.

I have a vested interest to declare here.  The current round 
of SV language changes is the last one that will have any 
effect on my daily work before the end of my career.  Right
now I see only the prospect of unfinished business stretching
into the far future.  Our user community deserves better.
-- 
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