http://tinyurl.com/6qlfx
by a contrarian legal flack
sheds some light on this question & updates the autl situation
as the december deadline looms with the deal still uncertain

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:

>

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040826-094057-6923r.htm

> for some reason doesnt recite the 3 billion dollar amount of the
> reported auidtle & auidtlw settlement
>
> & unless this omission hints at some still outstanding

problem

> it is very likely that the deal is indeed already done as reported
>
> & so my eventual question here will most likely become moot
>
> until perhaps revived somewhere else on the planet
>
>
> but the article also reveals that the ozzie legal flack
> professor gillian triggs
> while calling impeccable & fair the autl line agreed between
> indonesia & australia while east timor was an occupied nation
> has at least learned since message 14099 that east timor

does

> indeed have a continental shelf too
> just like oz
>
> yet she & oz persist in their view that unclos does not call for a
> median line under the geologic conditions that obtain in the
> timor gap
>
> but can anyone answer this seemingly simple question
>
> what is the legal truth or spec there if any
> at least hypothetically
> if not by precedent
>
> is it a median line between coastal base lines
> or
> a median line between continental shelves
> or
> no median line called for at all but just some political

settlement

> or
> exactly what is supposed to be the default reality here anyway