There seems to me to be a "constitutional" issue that has not been addressed, and may well bedevil us in the future: In any collective body, there is a concept of a quorum, which is set high enough to ensure that the actions of any meeting represent the opinions of the body as a whole, and which is set low enough that the expected level of absences will not prevent business from being done. The current crisis is (apparently) due to the chronic absence of *one* member causing *chronic* failures of the IAOC to achieve a quorum. This suggests to me that the quorum of the IAOC is too high to allow it to reliably conduct business -- after all, any of a thousand accidents can cause one member to be absent for a long period of time. What are the quorum rules of the IAOC? Should they be revised? Dale