I thought this was an interesting part of the article that wasn't fully explained - how this was negotiated. There is some explanation for Director's Discretio

I thought this was an interesting part of the article that wasn't fully explained - how this was negotiated. There is some explanation for Director's Discretionary's purpose here in the Call for Proposals (although given that this Deep Field project seems now unlikely to qualify, this might have been retconned): https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080527200338/http://www.stsci.edu/hst/proposing/documents/cp/cp.pdf https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080527200338/http://www...