And in the end, it was a total anticlimax. AFAICT, everyone present was in agreement: everyone thought it was a lovely idea, and Carolingia shouldn't be involved. Mind, this is still Council, so we still spent a good ten minutes or so talking about it, but there was no actual argument, and I wound up having very little that needed saying.
All in all, it was pleasant, but startling. Sometimes, we *do* seem to learn...