Correct. Furthermore, the motto of the IETF is "Rough consensus and running code". Someone needs to go ahead and implement specs while they're still in draft st

Correct. Furthermore, the motto of the IETF is "Rough consensus and running code". Someone needs to go ahead and implement specs while they're still in draft stage so people can actually use it, benchmark it and in some cases figure out problems that no committee of IETF engineers would have been able to predict.