there appears to be some misconceptions here, firstly the new rules are not new as ptru has pointed out the dimension change was published in 2005, manufacturers were aware for nearly 2 years. the issues over IB's blowing up in the last few weeks are irrelevant to this, the new list will be based on dimensions not on any safety issues.
usually batteries that were on the list in previous years would stay on there, however that assumes that the batteries are the same as the ones submitted, in the case of IB's they have grown in length over the last year and are actually i believe outside of the old dimension rules, it also assumes that the batteries submitted for testing are the same as the production ones!.
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