New rules announced last month by the International Ski Federation prompted such harsh criticism from skiers, coaches and manufacturers that a meeting is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss them.

The rules, which focus exclusively on equipment and will be put in place for the 2012 Alpine World Cup season, have lately taken the most criticism from the athletes they were designed to protect. One skier, the Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety, recently wrote a post on his Web site titled, “My thoughts on FIS’s attempt to ruin GS.”

GS would be giant slalom, Ligety’s specialty, an event he would like to remain unchanged. He wrote that he recently tested the required new skis, which cannot have a radius smaller than 40 meters, or 131.2 feet. The old regulations had a 27-meter, or 88.5-foot, limit, a radius restriction changed little after the 1980s, when skis with the larger radius were the norm.

The longer skis in effect will change techniques and make the skiers less aggressive in their turns.