Re: RQ draft in progress

[Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

Lauren Wood wrote:
> 
> 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.

I don't see where the conumdrum is. The issue is scaling TC creation
in such a way that it is not limited by Oasis resources. Nowhere is
TC output mentioned. In particular, I have no idea
how you reach the conclusion that if no new members join the Footware
TC is would be unacceptable for it to work on Shoes. What am I missing?

Eduardo

> 
> Lauren