The newest committee paper does not contain a map. It does not contain a merger recommendation, a statehood recommendation or a final cost table. What it contains is a distinction that is becoming harder for the Convention's two most visible opposing voices to ignore.
The working comparison note groups the records, for analytical purposes only, into northern certified-corridor districts, southern lake districts and interior Korda. It reports that the southern lake districts have more present service obligations crossing into the interior, while northern entries more often describe services concentrated in the corridor or connected northward.
That is not a boundary proposal. The committee says so repeatedly. It is, however, another piece of evidence that makes the original corridor look less like a single administrative object.
Mire shifts the emphasis, not the claim
Jalen Mire has not withdrawn his support for giving effect to the certified corridor's democratic claim. But in remarks after the filing, he placed more emphasis on the claim itself than on the assumption that every district inside the original certification must receive the same final disposition.
He argued that the Convention cannot treat the petition as if it never happened and cannot produce an outcome in which the voters who triggered the process are simply returned to the status quo without an answer. He did not say that answer must be identical in every part of the corridor.
That is a narrower position than the one his opponents often attribute to him. It preserves the principle he has defended from the beginning while leaving open the practical question of how the Convention gives it effect.
Rell defines the objection more precisely
Tomas Rell made a corresponding distinction. He continued to reject any settlement that would leave the remainder of Korda unable to maintain basic services or continue a credible statehood path. But he did not describe every possible territorial adjustment as unacceptable in itself.
His emphasis was on the condition of the remainder: what obligations it would retain, what facilities and routes would still serve it, and whether the resulting Territory could continue functioning without an arrangement that looked workable only on paper.
That is not an endorsement of merger, partial or otherwise. It is a statement of the problem he says any resolution has to solve.
Orin keeps statehood in the room
Dessa Orin, meanwhile, has not retreated from whole-Territory statehood as her preferred outcome. Her response to the new comparison was characteristically procedural: the evidence should be completed before delegates turn a working classification into a political line.
But she also repeated that whatever the Convention does should preserve a credible path for Korda to complete the statehood process already underway. That leaves her preference intact while making clear what she considers non-negotiable if the Convention chooses something else.
No deal, but a more useful disagreement
There is still no compromise before the Convention. No faction has published agreed text, and the committee itself remains formally neutral. Several title and cost entries are still open, and the preliminary compilation has not been issued.
What has changed is the shape of the disagreement. Mire is increasingly describing his objective as meaningful democratic effect. Rell is increasingly describing his objection as protection against an unworkable remainder. Orin continues to center statehood.
Those positions can still produce a deadlock. They can also be argued against the same body of evidence in a way that was not possible when one side spoke mainly about a certified corridor and the other mainly about preserving the Territory whole.
After the sitting, several delegates remained in the Assembly building for smaller meetings. Civic Consul Elin Thoss was present in Korda for scheduled government business and held separate conversations with members of the Convention, according to her office, which gave no account of their substance. There is no published proposal to connect those meetings to.
For now, the committee has narrowed the factual question. The politicians have begun, cautiously, to narrow their own.