Suggested elements are:

1. Keep the status quo on the three-year residency rule (i.e. there is no three-year residency) but do the following: 6 foreigners allowed on Super League teams; four foreigners allowed on DI or DII teams; no limit on DIII teams. Only USA-eligible players on North American 6 teams.
   
2. Adjust the CIPP database for the following:
   
   Give players a two-week grace period during which they can, online, switch their club affiliation without penalty even if they have played a game. (Why that last part? Lots easier to police that way.)
   
   Clubs playing 7s toward a national championship must register a new 7s team in a separate 7s team database ... players are able to CIPP for a 7s team separate from their XVs team. Cost is $20 per team and $10 per player.
   
   Create a new registration database solely for the Super League, and charge the league to set it up. Players can register with a lower division club AND a Super League club and play for either on any given weekend. There must be a deadline for registering with the Super League club. We recommend April 20.
   
   Maintain database continuity. If a player has proven he is a citizen or a green card holder, then the database records that designation for the following year, thus reducing work needed to get him or her to prove it all again.
   
   
3. Create a short, clear, and specific set of guidelines for competitions that all territories can follow. Assess large monetary fines on territories that allow rules breakers.
   
   
4. Allow unlimited switching between different division levels for a player in the same club (e.g. one week you play for Old Blue Super League, the next week for Old Blue DI) until the first LAU or Super League playoff weekend (whichever comes first). At that point a player must be designated to play in one division .... EXCEPTION – any player may move up to the Super League team AT ANY TIME within the same club, even the week before the final, as long as he has been a member of the club since before April 20.
   
   
5. Allow players in DI, DII and DIII to move to a club in a higher division (including Super League) once in any calendar year. This is valid even if the player’s original club has begun league play and the player has played for that club.
   
   For example. Bobby McMannus suits up for Old Ruffians in DIII, but after two games, where his team loses by 85-0 and 77-3, the Ruffians fold for the season. Bobby calls up the DI team down the road and switches to them. No penalty.

That’s it guys. This at least makes it a more level playing field in that currently foreign players can switch to an American club mid-season, so why can’t an American?

I’d love to force the foreign requirement be half in the forwards and half in the backs, but that’s not going to work.

I’d love to enforce a no whining policy for when a team legally imports and overseas player and starts winning (the Naas Botha response).

And what I’d also suggest is that teams like the New Zealand Ambassador’s XV continue to provide select side competition for non-U.S.-eligible players and perhaps we can incorporate that into our New World Order.

But first of all, I just want it to make sense. We spend all our time worrying and passing memos back and forth trying to figure out if Player A played in a game "toward a national championships" or not. But if we change the rules so that sort of thing isn’t always a problem, then we save time, energy, and arguments. The point, by the way, is to make it easier for American rugby players to play rugby at the level they want.

Right?