"The benefits [of creating standards] are quite obvious, but the work is very much like herding cats. Trying to get people to agree on a standard is very hard."

Arnold Rots is an Archive Astrophysicist in the High Energy Astrophysics Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit Rots' personal website at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/