Everybody is allowed to vote in this one.

It is about the new name for the NMBR rating system. Under this name the system will be put up for evaluation at the various national sailing organisation as well various rating systems. The last so they may learn from it.

NMBR meant "New Meaurement Based Ratings" But that was only its development code name. It's project name. We now need a name that is easy to use and that is a good identifier for the system that was developped in the NMBR project.

I will have myself be guided by the outcome of the vote, while still reserving the right to choose a different name than the winner.

The list supplied in the vote is a listing of the better suggestions that were send to me.

Please note that a name like OCR will be used as "OCR rating system" while a name Like Socrates will be used as "The Socrates number for design ... " Or as in the case of SCORING "Your SCORING number is ..."




For a read-up on Socrates go to :

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm

I like the fact that the Philosopher Socrates is characterized by :

"In his use of critical reasoning, by his unwavering commitment to truth, and through the vivid example of his own life, .... Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy."

" ... insistently questioning their unwarranted confidence in the truth of popular opinions, ..." (My boat is fastest anyone ?)

" ... Socrates pointedly declined to accept payment for his work with students ... "


Aren't these great creeds by which the new rating system and open class racers should live by ?

And no I'm not the one who thought up this name. It was Norbert Kooij, an experienced Race Officier here in the Netherlands.


Now lets all vote quickly so that Colin can implement this new rating system into Sailwave so we can use it in 2005


Wouter