It increasingly seems like there are two, and only two, viable camps forming around this issue - Call them "chip/flash" (a step back?) and "open it up" (a step forward?). I don't see anyone arguing strongly for leaving things the way they are. I understand the "open it up" position better than "chip/flash," so I'll put this out as a straw-man goal:

Open it up - Establish equity, where everyone has the same opportunity to optimize their engine management.

Chip/flash supporters - What do you hope will result, if the policy shifts that way? And try not to put it in terms of why NOT to "open it up." Ignore also for a minute the issue of enforcement and the problem of writing an air-tight rule. Put your goal in terms of what will be different after the rule is changed.

K