In the early fall, before EWC was announced, the joint proposal committee had not gone very far toward a draft. It was only after the EWC announcement [in October] that acceleration happened.

We're not going outside of the IEEE process. Every item in our proposal is either based on a motion already passed by the JPG or can be traced back to the original groups. There's nothing new here.

But the Joint Committee is not meeting, so we are in a vicious circle at the moment.

They have put together a draft proposal that outlines where the trails could go.

We could have gone out there and stunk the joint up and still would have won 10-0. That's how overwhelming our defense was. Do you think Marcus Vick is going to be sore tomorrow? Why did people think we were going to come up here and get our [rears] kicked? Don't tell us we're going to get our butts whipped. It ain't happening.

From our early analysis we are disappointed with the new EU proposal.