>“Once we’ve exhausted our exploration of the data, we see no reason not to make them available publicly,” says Kati Lassila-Perini, a CMS physicist who leads these data preservation efforts.
Why wait until they've exhausted their efforts?
Why wait until they've exhausted their efforts?
Seems reasonable to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Participation_and_funding
2. The collaborations don't want to waste time shooting down the large number of false claims that would inevitably happen if the data were made public immediately.