I have a meta-observation. Clearly there are too many cooks here. The same suggestions keep getting brought up. We will never converge on a design this way. At this point the only thing to do is to wait for the Steering Council. I am not going to argue about the merits of any more specific ideas -- everything has already been proposed and the PEP authors have come up with a design that carefully weighs a *lot* of different requirements. The SC has indicated that they feel it's too close to the election date to decide, but they will come up with a recommendation for the next SC (which will likely have a significant overlap with the current SC). I will wait for that.

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