If this small group were to do certification or any testing or provision of testing software it would be faced with never ending accusations of prejudice, discrimination, bugs hidden in the software and on and on. There is to be only one OIIC TC but there will be many people that offer actual tests or testing software; the specification of that which is to be tested can be very open and free of bias and competition among the testers will quickly bring any biases to light.
A small group that meets by email would be appropriate to the job of (slowly) creating guidelines and specification and not so to writing software or running a testing business.
-- Gordon