Les,
my position remains unchanged, I am not in a position to make an official statement on status and I appreciate the difficulties of the situation you are in; thanks for the kudos, THAT comparison is probably beyond me.
Now, what I can say, though, is that my particular friend joako here certainly has even less base to make any kind of definite statement here or elsewhere.
Please keep banging your biz contacts, best,
Florian.