It should be noted that these outside-of-section-6 global scope negotiations have been going on since before the pandemic. I have no idea what kicked it off and who wanted it as a separate deal but it’s been clear all along that there would be a global scope TA with memrat and a full section 6 TA as well.

If you read the company’s update they still had to negotiate other items outside the global scope deal in order to fully close section 1, so this deal isn’t even the entirety of section 1, but rather a key cornerstone for building scope upon.