[Artemisia] From Laurel Sovereign of Arms

[Jacquie Ziegler]

Greetings!

Well, let's try this one again!

As requested, I am forwarding the below email from Olwynn ni 
Chinneidigh, Laurel Queen of Arms and Juliana de Luna, Palimpsest Herald 
with a link to an online survey on the Rules for Submissions of the 
College of Arms.

I encourage not just heralds, but all the populace to take this 
opportunity to provide input into the current review of the name and 
device registration process.

BEGIN COPY:

To those to whom these words come, greetings from Olwynn ni Chinneidigh, 
Laurel Queen of Arms and Juliana de Luna, Palimpsest Herald.

The Laurel office is starting to review our policies and procedures for 
submissions.  We expect that the eventual outcome will be a complete 
rewrite of the Rules for Submissions.
To start this process, we're asking the populace and heralds to give us 
feedback about the heraldic submissions process and how it should work.  
A survey which asks some basic questions can be found at 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLJZDDZ; we'd appreciate it if interested 
people would take time to answer the questions there.  Anyone can 
complete this; we promise to read all answers.  We expect the survey to 
take fifteen to twenty minutes.  Additional comments about or ideas for 
this process can be sent to rules at heraldry.sca.org.
We have several goals for this process:
-    to make the Rules for Submissions easier to use for heralds and 
submitters alike
-    to reduce discrepancies between the Rules as written and the rules 
as applied
-    to reflect on the degree of authenticity we want for the 
registration process and how best to codify rules to evaluate it
-    to reconsider the level of difference we should require between 
names and devices for registration

In all areas, the Society for Creative Anachronism has moved towards 
progressively better understandings of what people did in our period.  
Given this, we are not interested in discussing rules changes that would 
substantially lower our standards for registration of names and armory.  
But we are interested in exploring ways to make it easier for people 
register items that are in period style, whether or not they fit the 
rules as they currently exist.  We welcome ideas about how to do that 
from all sources.
We look forward to hearing from you!  The deadline for the survey is 
January 31; we will continue to accept comments by e-mail until the 
review of the rules is completed.  Please forward this message to other 
mailing lists, so that as many people as possible can respond.

Juliana and Olwynn

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Baroness Shauna