Excellent observeation there, Joe. The guys who created Honda Challenge in NASA VA will tell you that they have a new appreciation for the up-side of an ossified rules-changing process like IT struggled with for decades. There is a happy medium between "too flexible" and "stuck" and I really hope that we are able to maintain it with the current ITAC structure in IT.

I suspect that NASA is going to continue to overcompensate for SCCA's perceived weaknesses by taking "giving the customer what he wants" WAY too far, before either realizing the risks of that route, or evolving its own generation of entrenched old-timers.

K