Rita...nooooooooooooooooooooooo! This is a proposed standard change. The AKC has a comment period re proposed standard changes. They have posted the (proposed) standard on their secretary's page FOR COMMENT per the AKC bylaws. Based on our comments the AKC will either allow the balloting of the membership for the standard change (removal of the white DQ) to proceed...or not. Here, this is from the AKC: Breed Standard Revision Procedures A revision consists of any change, deletion, interpretation, or clarification to a standard. Once the Board of Directors has approved a standard there is a five year moratorium on revisions. Parent Club A. Breed Standard Committee is formed to review and formulate revisions. B. Notify staff of the American Kennel Club that the club is in the process of reviewing the standard. C. Submit revisions to AKC staff for input while being developed. Staff will present final revisions to The Board of Directors for their comment. At this time the proposed revisions will be published on the Secretaryâs page of the AKC Gazette, allowing 60 days for comment. D. Following publication, comments received and response to such comments from the club will be presented to the AKC Board for approval to ballot the membership. (there is more, I have the whole file if anyone wants it). Again, here is the link from the Oct. AKC Gazette to review the standard change proposal and here is the person to contact: send comments to: Mari-Beth O'Neill _mbo@akc.org_ (mailto:mbo@xxxxxxx) Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDC Celebrating generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions visit http://www.pinehillgsds.com/ In a message dated 10/25/2013 10:13:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, magic4sure@xxxxxxxxx writes: The two issues that we just recently voted on was to leave the Performance Victor/Victrix and the Alan Sandell Elite awards in their original form. They board had changed for the past two years. The membership voted. It is back the way it was since those awards were established. We were not voting on a standard change regarding the whites. The proposed change has been sent to AKC and if approved will then be put up to a vote of the membership for an up or down vote. Hope this explains. Rita Sandell Sent from my iPad===========================================================================POST is Copyrighted 2012. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ =========================================================================== ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2012. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================