Rob,

My understanding is that you cant have a new rule without specifying what is required. It hasnt been done yet. If you volunteered to produce a draft rule, Im sure that the executive committee would bite your arm off.

The current suggestion, as I understand it, is that individuals are urged to come up with their own solutions to the problem. From that a rule change will emerge.

There would need to be some time to fit a tether before the rule became operational. In my opinion I dont think that we will have a new mandatory rule for tethers on flippers in 2004 - but I may be wrong!

Jeremy