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| − | The [[WSFS]] '''Standing Committee''' was the second blossoming of the idea that [[Worldcon]] needs a body to provide support and continuity between [[Worldcons]].
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| − | Each [[Worldcon]] is a completely independent organization while [[WSFS]] iitself s unincorporated with no continuing officers or staff -- the [[WSFS Business meeting]] each year has a set of officers appointed by that year's [[Worldcon]] and their term of office is only for a few days. This system suits [[fandom's]] distaste for authority, but has downsides which have been apparent from nearly the beginning.
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| − | [[WSFS, Inc.]] in the mid 1950s was intended to provide a continuing corporation to guide and, if necessary, manage the individual [[Worldcons]], but it failed, primarily because it was seen as a vehicle for some fans to tell others what to do. The next formal expression of this sentiment came in the early '80s when the Standing Committee was established by the [[WSFS Business Meeting]] to exist between [[Worldcons]] and take care of whatever business that needed to be taken care of. Initially, it was given responsibility for the protection of [[WSFS]]'s trademarks, but as the decade progressed, other small tasks were entrusted to it.
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| − | Membership in the Standing Committee was complicated and deliberately diverse -- one of the major contributors to the failure of [[WSFS, Inc.]]., was that it was created by and perceived to be controlled by a small clique of [[New York]] [[fans]]. Part of the membership of the Standing Committee was by election with each [[Site Selection]] [[zone]] having representatives, while the rest of the committee was members appointed by each current or recent [[Worldcon]] or [[NASFiC]]. (This membership scheme was continued when the Standing Committee became the [[Mark Protection Committee]].)
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| − | While the Standing Committee was a much more [[fannish]] organization than [[WSFS, Inc.]]., and much more democratically controlled and with much smaller power, many [[fans]] saw it as a camel's nose tentatively poking into the [[Worldcon]] tent. (And that was certainly the intention of some of the organizers of the Standing Committee.) This discomfort came to a head at [[Confederation]], the 1986 Worldcon, when enough [[fans]] uncomfortable with the Standing Committee attended the [[WSFS Business Meeting]] and voted to replace the Standing Committee with an identically organized [[Mark Protection Committee]] which was specifically and strictly limited to protecting the service marks of WSFS. This was ratified in 1987 at [[Conspiracy '87]] and has remained the rule since.
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| − | (Many [[con-runners]] who favored the Standing Committee in the '80s have since concluded that all such efforts are doomed to failure since, like [[Con Ops]] or [[Security]], "You don't want anyone who wants a Standing Committee to be on it.") Therefore, a number of other limited-mission [[WSFS Committees]] have been formed.
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| − | See [[Mark Protection Committee]] for more on its role and a discussion of a bit of mission creep back in the direction of the Standing Committee.
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