Wesley, here's my observations on standards and the development of standards within the telecommunications industry (the A/V industry is using telecomms standards more and more because convergence and the good work done by the telecomms industry).

Standards are developed over time and it is an iterative process that consumes a lot of time and energy. Telecommunications companies have entire departments devoted to the learning of standards and influencing of standards.

Quite often a proposed standard is developed by a company trying to position their product/network architecture (I believe this is where you come in with your S/W tool) as the way to do business (remember the Beta/VHS battles?). Yes, they both were technology proposals that met different fates not because of their technical merit, but rather of different marketing strategies.

To introduce a standard within a given industry(s) the proposed standard should be submitted to the appropriate standards organization such as IEEE, ANSI, ISO ...etc. It's in organizations such as these is where you will either find true success or failure.

As I previously stated, I believe that your standard is flawed from a business case perspective (I'm assuming that there is a business case to support the expense of marketing your standards) never mind the technical aspects. To be accepted within the telecomms industry in NA you will have to go through one of the existing standards organizations or have an incredable amount of cash backing you up, because marketing it won't be cheap (you don't have an uncle called Bill do you?)

I would like to propose that you submitt your standard to the appropriate standards body for approval and if i gets accepted the majority of the people on this board will follow it.

Cheers