As has been cussed and discussed here, ARRL has petitioned FCC to
reduce the number of license classes from six down to three,
namely Novice, General, and Extra.

If you haven't read the entire petition (it runs somewhere around
35 pages, each page laden with microscopic-print footnotes) you
may have missed the fact that there will actually be 5
sub-classes of General.

One-Star General - Post 1987 Technician given a complimentary
field promotion to General

Two-Star General - Previous Conditional given humanitarian
promotion to General

Three-Star General - Pre 1987 Technician given posthumous
promotion to General

Four-Star General - General who took an actual General
examination in modern times at a VE session

Five-Star General - General who took an actual General
examination in front of a steely eyed FCC official in a noisy
drafty government office in downtown Fargo and had to walk uphill
(both ways) through 10-foot snowdrifts on Good Friday 1954.

73, de Hans, K0HB