The reason I view it a transient bargainingstage is that it is simply unsustainable as a model of economic life for more than a tiny fraction int he long-term.
However, this may simply reflect the government's desire not to give away one of its key bargaining chips in the Ulster peace process at too early a stage.
By this stage, efforts to find consensus among almost 200 delegations had given way to bargaining sessions among smallish groups of countries behind closed doors.