to reach a conclusion?
It's been more than a month

from the initial post and still at the same point...
This thread has become enormous and probably difficult to follow, especially if someone reads it for the 1st time. I haven't myself read the last 10 days posts, but I remember there was supposed to be a decisive meeting in Montreal in mid-May...
If it's going to take months, we may lose the forest and find just one analysis-tree