Past Problems Achieving NNTP community consensus?

[Jonathan Grobe]

On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Stan Barber wrote:

> Anne writes:
> > 
> > My impression was not that *documents* would be scrutinized, but that,
> > because of past problems getting the NNTP community to come to
> > consensus, there might be a problem letting us form a working group at
> > all unless the *charter* (well, I guess that's a document too :-) )
> > was very clear, and defined a very limited amount of work.
> 
> I think your statement is definately closer to what was said than mine, so
> I will update the draft along those lines.
> 
Could someone explain the past problems in getting the NNTP community
to come to a consensus? Why for example did the effort in 1991 to
revise the standard fail?