Does <R08> prohibit above-bumper extension?

[BethMo]

A burning question coming up in a lot of strategy discussion: is it legal to have a small robot with a device that extends past its own bumpers (while still remaining within the size limit)?

(In various places mechanisms have been discussed for descoring balls from your own/partners trailers, for dumping balls into opponent's trailers, or for making your own trailer harder to score on. All of them would be affected by this ruling.)

We found something that might be meant to prohibit this... but it's not phrased directly as a rule, rather as a consequence of other rules that don't actually prohibit it. It's in the front text of <R08> describing the bumpers.

If implemented as intended, a ROBOT that is driven into a vertical wall in any normal PLAYING CONFIGURATION will always have the BUMPER be the first thing to contact the wall.

Hopefully this has already been brought up to the rule committee and we'll have a fast official clarification.