Obviously it's practical to think about it happening sooner rather than later because we need to know if we would have significant salary cap to deal with if he wasn't going to play in 2007.
We would all prefer for this to be resolved sooner rather than later.
If there's going to be some change to the basis of our management of our salary cap and/or player remuneration ... well you'd want to be informed of that as soon as you can.