So … I will turn it around and ask the GAC members – are you willing to give up the provisions that require the Board to give the GAC special consideration?  Of course not.  And that in turn demonstrates precisely why the GAC argument fails.

 

I add only one additional point – the statements below by the congressional staff who were in Dublin mirror precisely what the NTIA representatives have said in the CCWG on any number of occasions (most clearly, that I recall, in Paris in March).  By all means, if you want the transition to fail, insist on deleting ST18.  But then you will bear the blame.  For one thing is certain – without ST18 the transition will fail.