Kip,
Thats sorta the process I figured would need to take place, unless there was some general industry understanding. Its still seems rather messy to me. But at least I think our eminent, or is that imminent, :) friend Al would approve to a certain extent (just funnin ya Al), since fillet quals will be required at some point.
So there ya go Al. ASME don't have it wrong. You're just on the wrong continent. :)
Back to the subject. I think Kip, your solution is better than anything I came up with since without an agreement of some sorts there is always complications and risk of disagreement after the fact. At least as far as I can see.
Of course, in time you would end up having quite a few fellas qualed both ways and the problem would tend to solve itself to some extent, but in our enviroment here we can experience a rapid turnover so it won't completely resolve itself.
And granted, it is still quite early in my review of these standards. Which I take as even more odd than API, being an old ASME codger.