> >> Herb, I thought we wanted New Work Item Proposals only when we had something
> >> resembling a Working Draft with fairly fleshed-out content, to avoid the
> >> embarrassment of cancelling a project at the ISO level. What's the current
> >> approach here?

We do both in a single poll: When there's a document ready to adopted by plenary as an initial working draft, we have a combined poll to adopt it as such and to direct the convenor to request a new project for it. This way we never have a work item without a draft.