Actually, the process was more "Oops, Big Committee A wants a report on this process. Let's form a temp!committee to discuss how it's going, thus discovering that Lower Level Committee B actually already exists and deals with this issue, although not with much focus because of bloating, so let's form a working group from temp!committee to reconstruct Committee B." In the meantime, the rest of us will simply get on with the process we're discussing, discussions of which will not actually affect it for the forseeable future.

My Cherished Institution works on a silo model, can you tell?