From IOL (Islam OnLine), US Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases, which I happened upon in looking for something else:

US Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases
By Aamir Latif, IOL Correspondent

(photo caption) Mullah Zaeef, a former envoy to Pakistan, reportedly represented the Taliban side in the recent talks.

ISLAMABAD – The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting the presence of foreign troops, Afghan government sources confirmed. ....
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"America wants 8 army and air force bases in different parts of Afghanistan in order to tackle the possible regrouping of Al-Qaeda network," the senior official said.

He named the possible hosts of the bases as Mazar-e-Sharif and Badakshan in north, Kandahar in south, Kabul, Herat in west, Jalalabad in northeast and Ghazni and Faryab in central Afghanistan.

In exchange, the US offered Taliban the governorship of the southern provinces of Kandahar, Zabul, Hilmand and Orazgan as well as the northeastern provinces of Nooristan and Kunar. ....
Has anyone been following this topic (US-Taliban negotiations); and are there any open-source confirmations of any such negotiations besides the 5 IOL links next to the article ?