I am not part of the RC, but I do believe waivers are similar to FA bids and extensions. These have a hard cap set. Many times I have had FA bids lost because they were a couple of minutes past the 72hour deadline. Same happened with extensions. And I have always had very erratic internet access here in Venezuela. It sucks, but if exceptions are going to be made regarding this kind of issues, then there needs to be a rule for those exceptions as well. I do believe some issues which are less important can have a 'soft' clock as has been mentioned many times, but player ownership issues should have 'hard' deadlines. Also, by placing a player on waivers, a team knowingly assumes the risk of losing said player, so I do not think waiver claims are different from extensions or FA bids. All three are simply player ownership issues. Again, I am not part of the RC, so this is just an opinion.