> It's possible to eliminate the interoperability failures by upgrading > _everything_, or by ugprading _nothing_. The problem is the transition. so, it sounds like the problem is not the proposed standard in question, but the lack of a transition plan without holes. shades of ipv6! so it sounds as if the wg is missing a work item. randy ps: i find your arrogant mail robots sufficiently annoying and abusive of my time that i will no longer be corresponding with you. oddly, we all think we're more important than everybody else. of course, none of us are.