Re: RQ draft in progress

["Lauren Wood" <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>]

On 7 Jan 00, at 9:59, Jon Bosak wrote:

> At our PAC meeting Thursday we read through and amended RQ 1 as shown
> below.  Next meeting we will take this up beginning with RQ 2.
> 
> Jon
> 
> ==================================================================

> ************* continue reading here 2000.01.20 **************
> 
> RQ 2. Resource/funding model
> 
>    The creation of OASIS technical committees should not be
>    limited by the resources of OASIS as a corporation.
> 
>    This appears to imply that the incremental cost of creating a
>    TC should, on average, not exceed the incremental revenue
>    gained through the addition of members as a direct or indirect
>    result of creating the TC.

Let's assume that the cost of creating a TC (PR, time for review, 
adding to the web site, etc) is equivalent to the cost of having two 
new members. This would seem to indicate that if the Footware TC 
starts on the Boot specification and two new members join, that is 
acceptable. But if the Footware TC then wants to create the Shoe 
specification, and no new members join, that would be 
unacceptable. 

I find this hard to accept. Since the members of the Footware TC 
could then just leave OASIS, and then rejoin, in which case 
everything would be hunky-dory again, it would seem reasonable to 
say that a TC with a certain number of members is entitled to put 
out a certain number of specifications per year (or other unit of 
time) and the resources required to process these will be there. 
Mind you, this would penalise very efficient TCs who produce a lot 
of work, and tend to encourage large specifications rather than 
small one. So I don't have a perfect answer to this conundrum.


Lauren