[Cupertino95014]

Great article. It's rare that anyone considers the old age and death of a policy (actually, "death" would be a good outcome, but that happens too rarely).

She's right that the later bureaucrats just cite phrases from the policy as if they were Holy Writ. It becomes literally like a religion, where the ultimate appeal is always to some sacred ancient text, and then they argue about what the ancient text means now.

So I like the idea of adding to the soon-to-be-ancient text words to the effect that "here's how you'll know this is becoming obsolete."