Approve.
This is clearly a good idea and a direction we want to go. I also agree with Don that portlets should move in the same direction.
Once the coding is done we will definitely want to evaluate the results before we take it into to the official release.
To my thinking that now, at the concept stage and then secondly when it is done, are the two points that OCT should be officially involved.
We should discuss, brainstorm and debate implementation choices and ideas as a community, but we don't need to get an official OCT vote on each choice. The first time for anything is always an iterative experiment. Hopefully this will be based on BCMS and thus a second time, but that is no where close to Pind's Rule of Five.
I suggest we approve the basic idea continue this discussion outside the TIP process.