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[quote=Anonymous]I just watched the ANC meeting video and I apologize to my brain for the damage it has suffered as a result.

There are two entirely different issues on the table: (1) compliance with the enrollment cap; and (2) compliance with the traffic management plan. They need to be considered separately because they are quite different. No one at GDS or otherwise disputes that there was a violation of the enrollment cap. The only issue is what the consequences should be.

The traffic issue is one where there is a dispute about the scope of GDS’s requirements and whether GDS is doing enough to enforce the plan. Based on what was said at the meeting and arguable inconsistencies in the documentation of the deal, I think there are legitimate questions that need to be analyzed about compliance with the traffic plan.

But the meeting was run so poorly — by a chair more interested in catching one of the GDS speakers in a “gotcha” moment than guiding a principled discussion — that the two issues were totally conflated and the conversation collapsed into a Neanderthal debate: “GDS good” or “GDS bad.” Ultimately, I think the feelings of the ANC commissioners (especially the chair) are that GDS’s failure to timely notify the ANC of the breach of the enrollment cap was an affront to the dignity of the ANC and, as a result, “GDS bad.” I think GDS is being punished less for noncompliance with the cap and more for failing to fluff the ANC sufficiently.

This meeting was a strong argument for rethinking the whole concept of ANCs.[/quote]

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