a workshop that many will attend next weekend (invite still stands Greg!)
The Bitcoin protocol shouldn't be specified by invitation private meetings.
Typical consensus rule changes usually take a couple years to mature. By trying to fast track things you are doing exactly what hearn did with bloom filters. I hope Bitcoin has matured to the point that when someone overloads proposal bandwidth the response is just "no" rather than letting it happen.
Bitcoin development right now barely has the bandwidth to be even minimally responsive to basic bread and butter stuff.