Ray,

I realize you have suggested this before, but unfortunately it is a bad
idea.  When document A is held up by a normative reference to B, A and
B must be published together.  It is not at all unusual for some
inconsistency between A and B to show up at the very last minute.
Therefore, it is unreasonable and undesirable to say that A must be
fully ready to publish before B is done.

Furthermore, it seems to be forcing a particular resource allocation on
the pub service with no gain, but rather a loss of flexibility and
therefore efficiency.  If you accept that the pub service has the same
goal that the IAD/IASA/IETF has -- publishing documents as quickly and
efficiently as possible -- then imposing arbitrary scheduling rules
like this cannot be a useful thing to do.

Bob Braden

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