Confidential Interpretations Go Public

The AC Class Rule allows teams to seek and receive Confidential Interpretations from the Measurement Committee, but only through March 31 of this year. Thereafter teams can only seek "Public Interpretations" (which become public as soon the Measurement Committee issue them).

The Class Rule also provides that any Confidential Interpretations that were issued individually to teams must be made public by the Technical Director not later that 1 May 2006 -- today.

Accordingly, this morning ACC Technical Director Ken McAlpine circulated to the teams the 13 "Confidentials" previously issued. They are available for downloading as a zipped-folder of 13 individual .pdf files here.

This "going public with the Confidentials" is not new. It was in previous versions of the ACC Rule. In the past, however, CI's only became public just before the start of the LVC.

In 2003 when the Defender and Challenger of Record wrote Version 5 of the Class Rule, we agreed it would level the playing field for all concerned, especially newer teams, if the CIs became public much earlier -- hence the new rule requiring issuance of them today, fully 11 months before the start of the LVC.

The full text of Version 5 of the AC Class Rule is available (before you click, please take note that it's a fairly large file -- 1.9 megabytes -- that will take some time to download if you are not on a fast connection) here.