As timill said, that's a feature, not a bug. Many people (me included) think that long, drawn-out bid campaigns are bad things. They waste resources (money and people points). People have proposed banning campaigning more than X years in advance. I oppose such proposals, both on theoretical "free speech" grounds and practical ones (people would have "we're not bidding" parties or otherwise evade such prohibitions). So "no-zone" makes bidding too far in advance a bad idea for structural reasons for most North American sites instead. It doesn't actually prohibit you from bidding many years before your election; it just makes it inadvisable for practical reasons.
In the case you describe, once one of the three sites was selected, the rest of the continent opens up and you'd have a (relatively) economical two-year bidding campaign.
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Date: 2006-10-02 05:06 pm (UTC)In the case you describe, once one of the three sites was selected, the rest of the continent opens up and you'd have a (relatively) economical two-year bidding campaign.