WRI hopes to have 1st stage review recommendations back to all author teams by early July. Second stage reviews will be much more detailed and technical in nature. For now, the first stage is agreed to and set, and will be conducted as planned. To some degree, experience during the first stage may be used to re-fine plans for later review stages. We continue to get requests and questions about consolidating the science and management papers on a topic and consolidating topics.
Team leaders have the overall responsibility for each paper.
If the leader feels that a contribution better belongs in another section please make that recommendation when submitting your draft. Similarly, if your team and several others feel that your papers need to be consolidated please make that recommendation. WRI will probably also make similar recommenations. For now, the response is about the same as at Tucson, forge ahead with your individual papers. We would like to go through at least the first review stage, and perhaps the second before we tackle those issues.