In article , Marc Ramsey
wrote:

Tony Burton wrote:
... This is news to me, which should be a little bit surprising, given that
I am one of the members of GFAC. I know of the Canadian COTS proposal,
but have heard nothing about it since it was rejected by the IGC.

I've been cc'ed in the long e-mail chain between the Canadian delegate,
COTS drafter, Garmin, and Ian on your committee after the IGC annual
meeting. Things are chugging along apace.

There is reason to be optomistic that a COTS GPS unit will be approved
within a bureaucratically short period of time.

If by "bureaucratically short period of time" you mean October 2006,
then indeed, there is some finite probability that something could
happen then. IGC rule-making procedures make it impossible for it to
happen any sooner.

That's what I mean - I'm familiar with the IGC approval process - "short"=
as fast as the bureaucratic system allows (I hope).

Cheers

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Tony Burton