Those are the kind of details that we'll have to iron out.
Personally, I don't really want to get into fees, but we'll have to vote on that, if there's a need.
Funding is probably going to be out. It's really going to be up to each of us to to buy and build our test rigs. There's a benefit in the variations, so I don't think we'll push for a standard, other than an acceptable error margin, and that's still an iffy. The Alliance is about setting testing parameters, not dictating how a testbench should be built. The test bench should meet some kind of testing requirement, that's it.
There's definitely going to be a lot of block swapping, among members. It'll be part of our calibration procedures.
The thing is, the first thing to do is to set some testing requirements, that are reasonable. Then we have to validate the test benches, the procedure (including the self calibration), and the stated error margins.
Then we can start cross-calibrating, preliminary, to validate the stated test procedures, tweak our test benches, and redo the whole exercise, over and over.
Then we can cross-calibrate each other, so that we can each take our actual results, and adjust them for what the alliance finds is a "truer" value.
It could take years just to get everyone up to that point!
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