having all the I-Ds available by mid-January at the latest.
True. But since we didn't get all the expected drafts by then, we are still *hoping*, as I wrote.
Please interpret my words as carefully as you expect other people to interpret yours.
However, careful interpretation of your words has shown that you seems to have changed the deadline for some proposal you prefer but you are careless enough not to annouce the change to give other proposals equal chance.