1. to make it possible for all institutions and funders to mandate OA without being held back by considerations of copyright renegotiation or embargo length
2. to make it possible for all institutions and funders to mandate the deposit component (if not the OA component nor the copyright retention component) of any OA policy without the need of an opt-out option
3. to make it possible for authors to provide almost-immediate access ("Almost-OA") to their articles during any OA embargo almost as effectively as by making them immediately OA, thereby maximizing uptake, usage and impact and minimizing losses to research and researchers during any OA embargo period
4. to make it possible for the date of deposit (if not the date of OA) to be dictated by institutions and funders, not by publishers
5. to make it possible for all authors to comply with OA mandates at a fixed, natural, determinate date in their publication cycle and work-flow, and to begin providing OA (or Almost-OA) to their (refereed) findings as early as possible.
6. to make it possible, once all or most institutions and funders worldwide have mandated immediate-deposit, to hasten the inevitable, natural and well-deserved death of all OA embargoes, under the mounting global pressure of OA and its benefits (and author fatigue with the "friction" of having to keep clicking the Button to provide Almost-OA!).