[webmaven]

> Very much this. I have worked with UN (ILO and WHO) in Geneva and signing a tiny (< $30k) software development contract required two years of extraterrestrial bureaucracy with an ultimate failure in the end.

Pretty sure you meant extraterritorial, but if you really meant extraterrestrial, that would be VERY cool.

[egorfine]

Extraterrestrial. As in, unprecedented on Earth. Seriously, their bureaucracy is incredible, and I speak this from a former soviet republic.

[webmaven]

Ah. That's not how I interpreted 'extraterrestrial bureaucracy', which at an extreme suggests a mid-level functionary on the ISS, or at least workflows that involve forms sent in triplicate out to a Mars orbiter and back. ;-)