  A possible resolution of the early thermalisation puzzle is provided by the
notion of far-from-equilibrium attractors which arise due to the specific
kinematics of heavy-ion collisions. Attractors appear in a wide variety of
dynamical models, and it is plausible that they also occur in QCD. The physical
implications of these observations depend on how robust this effect is when
typically made symmetry restrictions are relaxed. I briefly review this line of
research and its perspectives.
