Question: What's so called "Straw man proposal"?? 

Answer: From Wikipedia:\n\nA "straw-man proposal" is a simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion of its disadvantages and to provoke the generation of new and better proposals. As the document is revised, it may be given other edition names such as "stone-man", "iron-man", and so on, etc.
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