Joe,
I think you are mistaken on the intent and the context of the proposed rules. If you read the introduction letter that accompanied the ballot the questions you raised were addressed. I have copied a couple of parts of that letter below.
"I think it might be wiser to allow e-carrier o be flown for a year or two as an unoficial NCS event."
See the opening sentence and also the second paragraph.
Since the proposed NCS unofficial rules were published in the last Hi Low Landings,
there have not been any comments sent in to Gary for publication or discussion.
I had a nice phone conversation with Leon Ryktarsyk about Electric Carrier. He questioned the choice of weight limits, and I explained it was just our best guess, based on E-Carrier experience to date, of a reasonable way to begin. We can change the weight limits in the rules after a year or two of experience.
"Also it does not feature the "try it locally first" " see the second sentence below
The purpose of this article is to ask for your vote on the proposed unofficial Electric Carrier rules published in the last issue and reprinted here. Your approval would provide a set of rules, kept administratively by the NCS so you can always identify them easily and precisely (as, for example, NCS319e) that could be used in local carrier contests, either as separate events or as events combined with the non-electric events. This will be a decision by the contest organizers, of course, but it will make it possible and precise to add electric Carrier.
These rules were drafted so that there could be a framework to experiment with over the next few years and then refine them. They will not to replace any existing official event rules and can be used at the contest directors discretion.
Bob