[ANSTHRLD] Conflict question

[Marie de Blois]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:10 PM, doug bell <magnus77840 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm surprised neither of you mentioned the other reason a submission
>> might not cause conflict at submission time but still be returned by
>> Laurel for conflict ... another submission in the pipeline that can't
>> be seen at submission time, possibly even just "in the packet en route
>> to the kingdom submissions herald".
>
> If your submission is at Laurel you aren't worried about conflicts still in the hands of kingdom.

Why not?  If I'm at a consult table advising someone on a submission,
and three kingdoms over a submission is already on their internal
Letter that the consultation could conflict with, you may not know and
it will make it to Laurel ahead of your not-even-yet-submitted item.
(For what it's worth, not all kingdoms produce a publicly available
internal Letter.)

Maybe it's just me, that I'd rather tell someone up front that it's
not a perfect process and that we're not omniscient.


Marie