the original outline -- i was in vienna in november when they extended the talks yet again to the march 31st date and then to june 30th. the plan was political agreement march 31st and then technical details in the ensuing three months. we're stretching the definition of technical here by putting many of these big picture difficult, key essential issues under the category, under the umbrella of technical. we're still talking about major political issues that at least to our current knowledge have yet to be decided. there are a lot of words that had to be redefined in these negotiations. one is deadline. lots of deadlines have been passed. one is technical. the other one is agreement. we were talking about a political agreement today. it doesn't look like you're going to get something that you and i would call an agreement, more a general statement of progress and here is what else we have to work on. again, they could surprise us, but that's what i've been hearing from both sides inside these talks. i think it's consistent with