No difference.  Only the title is different.

Thanks Paul for the quick response.

'Not sure i completely agree, an online notice board can be unofficial.  There can be only 1 'official' notice board that needs to be defined in NOR and SIs.  

Sue,

Perhaps you could explain your disagreement a little more. 

My question was really only pertaining to the 'function' (say, the 'computer code behind the webpages') rather than the RRS 'officialness' of ithem.

I think Paul answered my query. 

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Ben, Re Sue, Perhaps you could explain your disagreement a little more.

Strictly within the context of the rrs.org Event Management System Paul's answer to your question that there is no functional differences between the 'Official Notice Board' and the 'Online Notice Board' was, of course quite right.

I think Sue was addressing the broader context of the RRS.  Most events these days have some sort of online noticeboard.  This is not necessarily the Official Notice Board.  RRS J2.1(7) requires that the NOR or SI identify which or where is the Official Notice Board.

That's what I figured.

Let's be clear.  My question was about the computer coding functionality of the two versions on racingrulesofsailing.org, not the RRS function.

Sue appears (as you say) to have commented on the RRS connotation, and I agree with her.

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The phrase 'Official Notice Board' is not defined, but is used several times in the RRS in an ordinary sense.

61.1 - Race Committee Protests
86.2 - WS Authorisation letter for changes to rules in a specific event
87 - Permission to change class rules at an event
90.2 - Sailing Instructions location
(J2.1(7) - Location of ONB)
N1.7 - WS Authorisation Letter to adjust constitution of International Jury
N1.8 - MNA approval of the International Jury
(App. S - Example standard sailing instructions)

However J2.1(7) asks for the SI to define it's location, and that essentially defines it as 'the location for the information in referred to elsewhere'.  So it doesn't need any special definition.

'Online Notice Board' is a remnant of the old days when ONBs were physical paper noticeboards, but backed up online.  Now there seems to be cross-over in the uses of both.

The terminology here is pedantic.  I think as per Appendix J, an 'Official Notice Board' should be referred to.  Thus, the name online notice board is redundant when all comms are online anyway.

I think it's an omission not to specifically name an Official Notice Board.


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