The suggestion that DVC could allow members to use points to reserve rooms in undeclared units at 12-months out may be something DVD could create as rules for not yet existing DVC Resorts, but not likely under current rules for existing resorts. The current rules actually allow rooms in undeclared units to be reserved by, and assigned to, club members via points reservations along with rooms in declared units. But the rules expressly provide that for any given day, the combined total of such rooms assigned to club member reservations can never be greater than the total number of rooms already dedicated to the DVC Resort. See Membership Agreements provision "Reciprocal Use by DVD and Club Members," §3.7 in the BWV agreement..
Example: assume 50% of all the units/rooms have been declared into a DVC Resort. When a club member goes to reserve with points, that member can actually be assigned either a dedicated room or undedicated room. However, the number of total rooms reserved for any given day can never be more than the total of already dedicated rooms in the resort. Thus, if DVC were to create a rule that members, for an additional fee, could reserve undedicated rooms using points at 12-months out, such reservations would necessarily decrease the number of rooms any other member can get for the same days starting at 11-months out. In other words, for that extra fee, enough members could make reservations at 12-months for 50% of the total rooms in the resort and all other members would be able to get nothing at 11-months out. The current rules prohibit that.
