Look at the start of this process, don lowe went out and requested input, part of the "team" was indeed JPO driven, the other part was hand selected by don lowe. people love to bash the JPO when they have no real basis to do so. as stated earlier, the three contrails I recieved this year all mentioned this process requesting input. hardly the secret or vaccum mentioned. imho you could not have a better person than steve on your side. his career deals with these things, and the balanced view he has brings tremendous levity to the table. he has been event cd, participated in numerous events, and does understand the pita issues with the current rule set. Until the ama comes forward with the final set, I'd reserve judgement. even then keep in mind that what is proposed to the ama hardly ever comes out the same after the safety and executive committee chews on it for a while.

tam, I believe buddy box training is part of what was proposed, again though, what was proposed may not be what comes out as rules.