I am not a promoter, but a fair and level playing field is not so much depending on elimination of naked shorting, but on immediate reporting on each trade (and daily summary) of short trades. When you short a stock it is so entered in the system data base, no reason such trades should not me marked as such and no reason that the short position be available only once a month, sometimes six weeks late. Specialists and market makers have that information, and the public should as well.