Is Draft Applicant Guidebook (4) the Final Applicant Guidebook
Heard in a crowded room:
- We are 3 months away from a final draft application guidebook!
- Who says it will final? We have head that before.
- We need for it to be the final applicant guidebook.
So what would stop it from being the final, really final?
Substantive comments of course.
But there will always be substantive comments - until the end of time, there will be substantive comments. If the staff has thought through all of the previous comments in detail, though, they should have answers for any substantive comment of the form of: “We thought of that and took the option we took because…” From what I know of the crowd working on the applicant guidebook they have thought of more variants and responses to variants then most mortals could ever have endured. Sure they have not thought of everything, but none of us ever will - even if we were to work on round 1 until the end of time.
The GNSO knew there would never be a perfect round. It is time for the Board to realize that there will never be a perfect round. It is time to satisfice - take the best answers available for a balanced and bearable cost - and get this show on the road.
And please remember the promise to schedule round 2 for 1 year after the beginning of round 1 as instructed by the GNSO.
