Shoe:
The trust issue is not because of actual technical knowledge, but perception is reality for most, correct? This is why our public still goes to Best Buy and Radio Shack for answers. If you had a question about your HDTV, would you go to:
a. the IEEE or FCC?
b. the engineering team that designed it?, or
c. the salesman you bought it from?
If you think the answer is anything OTHER than c, then you don't think like your public does, and YOU will need the reality check.

Those who know about this industry and its professionals will seek us. Those who don't either don't care or know where to look. Realtors are the messenger to sell the product. Their technical knowledge is the least of all because that knowledge must be replaced with appealing to the buyer for the sale. The architect will have more knowledge because they at least have the advantage of shaping the home, and therefore being required to know what's being put in it according to the owner's wishes. The builder will have the most knowledge because their industry is in the actual construction of the home based on the architect's engineering skill and dealing with the on-site conditions instead of theory.

The suggestion is not to mislead the public in making these professions what they are not, but to make our offerings more appealing for these professions to take on under their own initiative. In giving a completed piece that they can start and finish easily, you make the pot sweet so you can catch the flies while making more work available for the experts (us)!

To settle this 'consensus' with a simple YES or NO answer, how many of you think that a wiring standard that has the possiblity of making more homes ready for the technology we sell and make for better relations with the architecture, builder, and real estate industries as a whole, SHOULD NOT BE PROPOSED? I will weigh your answers carefully and impartially.