[sv-cc] Re: [P1800] Questions on our activities during the ballot period.

Johny,

I would actually assume that most of the ballots will arrive at the last
minute. If I were a (entity) balloter, I would wait till the end of the 
period in the knowledge that otherwise a new issue could be spotted after
ballot submission. Also, many of the balloters will have more than one
person reviewing and submitting comments within their entity. 
So I would wait till getting the responses of the last of my reviewers. Plus,
because people have regular tasks to do as well, it takes time to do these
reviews, which are extra tasks.

This is also the experience I had in an internal company ballot process
a few months ago.

In that case, if you don't let the committees start discussing issues 
before the official ballot submissions, they are going to be overloaded 
with work in the extremely short time allocated for the ballot resolution
process. In that case, the resolutions to valid problems found are going to
be quick and dirty and not of the quality desired in some cases. 

That is what happened in 1364-2001. Valid problems were brought up during
the ballot, 'swept' under the carpet during the resolution, and came back
to haunt us later.

All my personal opinion, of course.

Regards,
Shalom

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