then rova responds to those comments. each one has to say your suggestion for this area, say seat belts here's our response. then the canvas gets all of those comments. from rova back to the canvases, so everyone gets to see the full exchange of information. then a consensus is built around the voluntary standard. it's then sent to antsi. here's how we did it and antsi checks the process and verifies you followed the antsi procedure. when antsi approves it it becomes official and ultimately a book for lack of a better word is published and that becomes a standard by which all of the vehicles subject to that voluntary standard must conform. >> so then it becomes mandatory. >> it's voluntary -- >> what's the difference between mandatory and voluntary? >> it's voluntary in the sense of it's developed by stakeholders, but it's enforceable. mandatory means the cpsc imposes what it thinks is the best approach. and where we are now is at an impasse between a voluntary standard that's brand new that just came out in september 201

rova is accredited by the national standards institute to develop standards and has worked with numerous stakeholders to develop the standards commencing in 2008 and culminating voluntary standards approved in 2010 2011 and most recently september 2014. the cpsc evolved throughout the process. the newest rov standard includes a dynamic stability and handling test in and requirement as well as new alternative seatbelt reminders proposed by the staff and driver-side speed limiting found in over 60% of the 2015 model year rov. simultaneously with the approval of a voluntary standard for cpsc metadata pending notice of rulemaking regarding rov spewed the npr ignores the voluntary standard. instead the cpsc staff analyzes the prior 2011 version of the voluntary standard and based on testing of vehicles from model year 2010. in a supplemental briefing submitted three weeks after the standard was approved assassin that rejected the standard because it did not match the rulemaking. the cpsc proposals are not supported by real-world application. one area of concern is the cpsc application of on r