It's a real pity to see such an important topic slide off the top page.
I hope the day never arives when some senior ICAO official or airline manager finds himself facing some high-powered lawyer who asks him why ICAO or the airline had never though this issue important enough to acton, given that at least one fatal accident involving large passenger jets, the USAF/GAF midair off the west coast of Africa some years ago, might have been avoided if offset tracking was mandatory.
Someone has said it before in earlier threads - the sad fact is, fare-paying Western passengers, probably lots of them, will have to die before anything is done.