Dear Tags, Bob Morris and Chuck Miller have made some interesting comments on this page in the wiki: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/QualityAssurance I'd like to throw this open to a wider audience as I am aware that many of you are not on the notify list of the wiki pages. The question in hand (as I see it) is this. The TAG has a role to play maintaining the "quality" of TDWG standards. If the executive (or any other member of TDWG) asks the TAG what its opinion on a particular standard or proposed activity is how should the TAG respond. 1) Should it have a list of criteria that guide it in assessing the standard/activity? 2) Should it take a completely ad hoc approach to each request? My opinion is that we should have at least a list of basic criteria even if some of those criteria are not appropriate to all situations. Before we embark on building such a list does anyone disagree with the notion of having a list at all? I'll take a week of silence as assent. Many thanks for you brain cycles on this, Roger