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Why don't we just get a bunch of IEEE members together into a Standards Committee and bang out a standard protocol for music unit control, music metadata transfer, and music search request transfers.
This protocol could be spec'ed to run over USB2, PCI-Express, Ethernet, what have you.


Because most IEEE committee members are still sponsored by their employers, who have diverging interests?

(OK, at least my efforts in the IEEE POSIX committee resulted in some interesting trips to interesting places)