The annual process for proposing changes to the rules in the NAR Model Rocket Sporting Code ("Pink Book") is defined in Appendix section F of the Pink Book http://www.nar.org/pinkbook/index.html. This year we have initiated an new online forum http://www.nar.org/phpBB3/index.php?sid=30e2710e2b70e6c595351c308df84246 area for the rules change proposals (RCP) to be reviewed, commented on and finally voted on. You must sign up on the forum page to post comments and to be able later to vote on the 23 proposals that have been submitted for this year through the online submission form. See the FAQ at http://www.nar.org/pdf/RCP_FAQs.pdf to learn how to log in and use this forum. Only current NAR members can log in.
You are allowed to make one comment per proposal, and each comment is limited to 100 words. Jim Filler is the moderator of this forum and manager of the annual rules revision process. He will review every comment before it is posted for everyone else to see. Comments must be posted by March 15, 2012. Details for an upcoming electronic ballot done through this forum for you to vote on the proposals will be communicated after the comments are posted.
Posted this information to encourage our NAR members to join and engage in discussion of the proposed changes to the Competition Rules. There are 23 proposals that take a little time to read thru and I felt some might deserve some discussion amongst us before NAR members post their comments.
For what it's worth, if I'm reading the whole shibang correctly, the ONLY way a NAR member is going to be able to vote on any of these proposed changes is to register to the Forum. I may be confused about this shift to electronic decision making but it appears NAR leadership has quietly removed another benefit of open NAR membership and discretely but effectively limited participation in voting on changes in the Pink Book to those that are paying attention and care to register.
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