It depends on what your definition of "is" is.

Equal footing is the intent of the design and has been proven to a valid condition. There are 2 numbers publised in the Portsmouth tables. Because of this race management has to be petitioned to group them togehter for scoring at US handicap events at least. This may be a different case other locations in the world.

A more formal class organization is in the works with bi-laws etc, but even if that was complete, We are going to have to make declaration of the distinction to the race committees for quite a while, as the concept seems to be too radical for the average Joe.

M