(Hena @ Oct. 10 2007,17:41)
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(Markconz @ Oct. 10 2007,17:10)
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Anyway like Hena says - feedback and now. This is your chance.
I wouldn't exactly say it like that. And until there is feedback the rules won't really move from controversial to accepted.
Semantics or translation difficulties, or perhaps a different view of the process Hena. I'm just going with what the old ERC process was supposed to be (but years late), because I think that process would have made sense had it happened.
That means that I see 'acceptance' as being much later than I think you are envisioning (and will definitely involve lots of feedback). All I'm talking about is establishing a fresh set of experimental rules for playtest (like the 2004 ones hosted at SG, that Greg Lane should have updated in 2005). It's important to have one standardised set otherwise everyone is on a different page, using different rules and it becomes very hard to get some progress happening. Perhaps you imagine that with the posting of Neal's documents the establishment of a new set of experimental rules for playtesting had already occurred? I don't - this is just the the final review stage before getting to the stage of one set ready for playtest (despite much playtesting already having occurred already of course...)
So far it seems you have no difficulty accepting for playtest everything Neal has put in his exp rules documents, and neither do I really. However, other people might object to playtesting some of those rules, and it is important to hear those objections now.