Following up on Mike Rodenbaugh’s   comment that  “This IRT group is supposed to implement policy, not revisit and make policy”, maybe the group should assign someone (staff or group member) as a “ line referee ” to act as an interlocutor with the responsibility of reminding us when we seem to drift too far into the policy woods.

Sam L.

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