@silverpill yeah, that staging process is definitely more bureaucratic and formal than "write a FEP, implement it, respond to feedback". but plenty of non-corpo entities have a similar level of bureaucracy, especially in the standards space. idk, am relatively new to the space, so if there is some history or context I'm missing, I'm open to new info.

I'm also down to work together with you on writing an FEP together, and/or writing up some of my ideas about how an MLS-based protocol could work