This is quite true and as mentioned, the workload on staff (and volunteers who "staff" some of these efforts such as the review committees) that only so much can be done to stagger the release of the reports (without arbitrarily holding them for release after the meeting - which I am NOT advocating).
But unless there are extreme time pressures, there is little reason not to extend the comment period!
Alan At 07/10/2009 07:52 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
That is, unfortunately the way with deadlines. Once the deadline for docs was made for 2 weeks before the meeting, most all efforts scheduled back from that date.