It is understood that Project Canvas, which has faced the difficult task of gaining agreement from six partners – the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, BT, Talk Talk and Arqiva – over hiring a chairman, will announce the appointment this week.
The Canada Act also contained a formula for its amendment in Canada, a subject that had defeated attempts to gain agreement on a new constitution as far back as 1927.
The new map, proposed by the Democrats, was selected last month by a Denver District Court judge, Robert S. Hyatt, after competing plans for incorporating the 2010 Census numbers failed to gain agreement.
Veterans of past negotiations said the air of crisis was reminiscent of the negotiations that preceded the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which laid down a blueprint for peace in the province, and the years of subsequent talks that were needed to gain agreement on the power-sharing institutions in Belfast.
After some early compromise, which was welcome, the EU walked out on the second day as the chair was unable to gain agreement from countries like Pakistan and South Africa to remove a footnote which might limit the treaty to transnational companies, and exclude domestic-only companies.
I served on the staff of the United States Embassy in Beirut in that period, and along with my colleagues met with all contending factions in a vain attempt to gain agreement for the reconstructed Lebanese Army to assume responsibility for security in areas under control of the factional militias.
This step is about gaining agreement and making explicit the things that all your stakeholders care about.
The government says it has taken steps to protect UK farmers from being undercut - by gaining agreement from supermarkets not to use illegal eggs.
The Iranian approach emphasises gaining agreement now on that end state - in which Iran would continue to enrich uranium (presumably at markedly lower levels) but as part of a heavily inspected peaceful nuclear programme - so that everyone can understand the direction of travel.
