What should USMS do about the suits?

Double-suits have been worn in competition for decades, at the expense of speed. I've worn them in in-season meets even as a teen when my practice suits were too transparent. Any official will tell you that DQs are for breaking the rules, not for any purported advantage in the race, so if they were against the rules then I should have been DQ'd even though I was going slower. I'm not really trying to put you or anyone on the spot. I'm trying to understand where the line -- necessary for the regulation you desire -- gets drawn and why among the pro-tech crowd. Once you allow performance-enhancement, innovations such as double-suits and wetsuits are different from Jakeds and other swimskins only as a matter of degree, not fundamentally. I also don't hear clamoring for arm-coverings. I wasn't refering to the practice of wearing a second drag or modesty suit. I was refering to the practice of wearing two performance enhancing suits, and edited my post to reflect that fact. I have no issues with the former. The ban on two suits was designed to preclude the practice of stacking of tech suits. I view that new "ban" as an interpretation of the previous rule, not as a new rule. I don't think there is any "degree" about B70 swim skins and wetsuits. They are so fundamentally different it is immediately apparent that they are intended for different sports. And wasn't FINA going to regulate thickness? Isn't the B70 1 mm? Draw the line there, easy enough.

Double-suits have been worn in competition for decades, at the expense of speed. I've worn them in in-season meets even as a teen when my practice suits were too transparent. Any official will tell you that DQs are for breaking the rules, not for any purported advantage in the race, so if they were against the rules then I should have been DQ'd even though I was going slower. I'm not really trying to put you or anyone on the spot. I'm trying to understand where the line -- necessary for the regulation you desire -- gets drawn and why among the pro-tech crowd. Once you allow performance-enhancement, innovations such as double-suits and wetsuits are different from Jakeds and other swimskins only as a matter of degree, not fundamentally. I also don't hear clamoring for arm-coverings. I wasn't refering to the practice of wearing a second drag or modesty suit. I was refering to the practice of wearing two performance enhancing suits, and edited my post to reflect that fact. I have no issues with the former. The ban on two suits was designed to preclude the practice of stacking of tech suits. I view that new "ban" as an interpretation of the previous rule, not as a new rule. I don't think there is any "degree" about B70 swim skins and wetsuits. They are so fundamentally different it is immediately apparent that they are intended for different sports. And wasn't FINA going to regulate thickness? Isn't the B70 1 mm? Draw the line there, easy enough.