Guess I am going to rub a few controllers the wrong way here. Common Sense says that you do your job the way that you are supposed to do it. If you apply a restriction and you need it, you either keep the aircraft until the restriction is met, or you call the next controller and pass on that restriction as you SHOULD do. You don't leave separation up to "common sense." You leave it up to positive separation and being a professional.
We expect pilots to do the right thing, so why shouldn't WE! I also don't want to hear the "I am too busy to do it right." BS! As the sector controller, YOU control the real flow demand into your sector. If you are too busy you control that. You may not get pilots what they want, and you may not get other controllers all of what they want. Such is life. We are here for ONE purpose and that is to provide a SAFE environment for pilots to fly in. We get them to where they want when they want as a secondary consideration. If it isn't safe then the rest of it doesn't count. If you are BETTING that an aircraft is going to follow a clearance that you gave and didn't tell anyone else about it, then you get what you get.
Sorry about the rant, but I hear this all too often.
regards
Scott H. Voigt
NATCA Southwest Region
Safety and Technology Chairman
PS. If you don't like how the book is written, get together with your representatives and get it redone... We do it here all the time.