I hope you're right. It seems like scope is always a one-way street. Once something is gone, or allowed, it never comes back.

Our challenge is to walk, chew gum, and sidestep the steaming pile on the sidewalk. I'm optimistic we can do that, but to avoid the pile we have to see it coming in time to react.

I don't know how it will happen yet, but I am sure that RAH will attempt to exploit some sort of scope loophole in the future. The same could be said for Alaska, any present/future JV, etc. Again, the challenge is to see the threat before it's too late. I doubt the guys ever saw the RJ explosion coming when the first ones showed up. Scope erosion is an insidious problem that can occur on the bottom or TOP end.

Pardon the paranoia this evening. I've got a half-empty rum and coke in front of me