the DSSA brought this report to the Council a while back (time doesn't permit figuring out exactly when). the report was caught in the usual logjam of crisis stuff and was given a very brief acknowledgement at that time.

the part you're quoting though isn't from the report -- that's based on the letter of submission from us co-chairs to our respective Councils (which we should have linked to this motion -- but didn't, so i've attached it to this note). in that letter, we co-chairs are pretty emphatic that the "go ahead with Phase II" option is a bad idea, and that sentence is part of our justification as to why we think that way.