Hartland,

I agree, it wouldn't seem that this discussion would take too long. Perhaps it relates to the possible inclusion of US patients into BETonMACE that is/may cause changes to the trial design/timeline? There are definitely a lot of unanswered questions, including yours, so you are definitely not "out to lunch." I made a brainstorm list of all of these pending issues in this previous post (reply to you) from a few days ago. As I wrote at the end of that message "So to answer your question.....your guess is as good as mine." 

BearDownAZ