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BTW, I think some specs and standards efforts fail with paid consultants because the interest of the leader(s) is to promote the consultancy, not create the spec or standard. This replicates the processes of pop music: songs are picked to promote the singer but songs are written to get a hit for the publisher. Most of the time that works until a good song is given to a bad singer or vv. This process is ok for spec work (which is what it is called in the music industry) but not for standards (where a good song in the hands of a bad singer is worthless but might get you through one gig). If you want an instant hit, be a good singer with a song written for the room (the middle gazelle). In this domain, as Tim Bray says, that's the minimum required to declare victory. Just remember, a summer is a lifetime to a teen-ager, a year is long to a twenty-two year old, and a decade, nothing to someone my age. If the song or specification is to become a standard, it has to still be fresh 20 years later even if reorchestrated. Is that easy? No. That's why it's lonely at the top and you have to afford flops. :-) len
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