Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
No one has ever clarified what the precise role of the committees is. Not as a general case. Each one seems to have been generated as a special case, with diverging operative assumptions. This confusion sorely needs to be clarified in the future.
We have in fact discussed rationalizing the committee system, since it is only loosely connected and some of it is not functional. I intend to work on a plan for an overhaul in the near future.
--Michael Snow