Thank you for the feedback on REP 116 http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0116.html.
The proposal and the patch have now been through a few revisions.

There have been reviews and discussion at:
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4887
https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20111007.001045.34a85d57.en.html
https://code.ros.org/lurker/message/20111007.225727.7a48c896.en.html

I'd like to call people to vote on the improvements as they stand.
Remember to vote with the normal +-1, +-0 syntax defined in REP 10 http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0010.html

Dirk