Re: number of founding organizations

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

[karl.best@oasis-open.org:]

| The TC process states that three PEOTCPs are required to start a
| TC, but doesn't say that they should represent three different
| organization. I thought, though, that that was what we intended.

No, we intended it the way it reads.

| I'm worried that a TC could be started by a single organization
| that assigns three of its employees to work on the task. We could
| end up with a committee spec that comes from a single company. Or
| maybe that's okay.

It's not OK, but there is no way you can prevent it.

[eduardo.gutentag@eng.sun.com:]

| Yes, a single organization can start a TC. And the assumption is
| that a committee spec that comes from a single company is either
| so good that it cannot be disregarded at voting time or it will
| just be voted down...  And in any event, once the TC formation is
| announced, another company can send 10 people to neutralize the
| first 3, etc.

Right.  And let's not forget individuals.  The process allows the
formation of an angry mob.  If people are upset enough about
what's going on in a TC, they can join OASIS as individuals, wait
out the time it takes to become voting members of the TC, and then
just vote it out of existence.

[robin@isogen.com:]

| My memory is that the current design was intentional,
| though I had (have) some ambivalence.  It would allow
| -- in the pathological case -- a company to start up
| a zillion TCs with 5-10 of its own employees, and
| (potentially) tax the OASIS resources.  This might be
| one way (??) in which the process is not scalable,
| if indeed there are no constraints on how many
| TCs a single individual may belong to.  On the
| whole, I'm guessing that there are dozens of ways
| to subvert the process integrity, intentionally
| or unintentionally.

I'm sure you're right.  But if something like this starts to
happen, the board can just change the bylaws.

[lauren@sqwest.bc.ca:]

| My memory was also that we intended the people to come from
| different organizations. But I don't think we have a way of saying
| that, since individuals can get individual memberships, even if
| they work for the same company. So I think we're stuck with the
| committee spec from one company - since the members of the
| committee is public knowledge, that would be rather obvious.

Yes -- the process relies heavily on public opinion.

Jon