Another radical membership filter

[Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak@eng.sun.com>]

Here's another scheme for screening participants.

OASIS meets about four times a year (lately it's been November in
the eastern U.S., February in the western U.S., June in Paris, and
August in Montreal).  So let's say that all TCs are required to
meet *on the same day* at each of these OASIS gatherings and that
membership is conditioned somehow upon attendance all day at the
required quarterly meeting of each TC.

Consider the following bugs to be features:

1. No individual member could be a *voting* member (as opposed to
   a vocal observer) in more than one OASIS TC at a time.

2. Any TC that consistently failed to achieve a quorum of people
   committed to its work as their primary activity would go out of
   existence.

This would allow us to use an NCITS-like automatic membership
mechanism, and in addition it would have the important advantage
of guaranteeing the presence of all interested participants in the
same place at the same time four times a year.  This would not
only improve communication, it would make it possible actually to
conduct business in general meetings.  Something to think about.

(And no fair criticizing these ideas of mine unless you propose an
alternative that accomplishes the same goals.)

Jon