What would be a "naturally" imposed deadline as opposed to an "artificially" opposed one?
I'd say it's one where there is a significant disadvantage to missing the deadline. The ICANN board meets at least once a month by phone, and could approve an MOU at any of those meetings. The only advantage to signing an MOU at San Juan is to have a photo-op with Vint, which I personally do not find a compelling reason to rush. If we were to do it a month or two later, the photo-op could be at a later meeting. On the other hand, all current and future North American at-large users will have to live with whatever organizational rules we set up for an NARLO, so I would greatly prefer to do it right than to do it fast. It is quite possible that if people go to San Juan, you will find from talking to people outside the NARALO* that there are things you'd want in the organizing documents that hadn't occurred to you before. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. * - that is, people who would not have attended the proposed NA-only meetings in Vancouver or Yonkers or wherever