Bump...
And Shunga, who makes the rules? Put them up for a vote is a simple way to do that. Fee? Small fees would be needed to cover the cost of paying people to actually RUN the thing. SomeONE would have to actually be spokesperson as well as a few helpers to pull it off.
Chase subscriptions? Nope. The sponsors put it up on their TOS, and have it on their signup pages. Trade Affiliate number in this box. No number, no get to join.
A first thing to release to the news people would be an announcement of this program. THAT would be a positive step showing that we intend to clean this business up. Not just sit around mouthing the words until someone else does it FOR us. Believe it or not, it will happen eventually if we don't do it ourselves for real. Surfers reading on such news sites as CNN and the like would be impressed with the members of such a group and might even encourage them to whip out those cc's more often. Knowing we aren't some little snot nosed 17 year old just waiting to get ahold of a cc number to go on a playstation game buying binge at their expense.