Talli,
I am not sure what you mean by OpenACS becoming a clique. It seems to me that generally the decisions are made by people who are now the de facto core team.
The current process is working, but using the struture in this TIP would make the process more transparent as the decisions would be made in the open.
TIP is adopted from TCL and I believe stood for Tcl Improvement Proposal or something similar. For OpenACS I just that is a misname, and we will need to think of another clever name for proposals.
