Hi Boost, I've been developing a serialization library to prove a few concepts and this has recently started to bear fruit. It tackles the problem space in quite a distinct way resulting in features like runtime-selectable encodings and out-of-the-box network messaging. Feel free to poke around in the software at; http://groups.google.co.nz/group/pact-serialization/web Aspects of the design came from sources such as; * SDL (http://www.sdl-forum.org/SDL/index.htm) * Active Objects (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Act-Obj.pdf) The work was motivated by years of battling with proprietary encodings, configuration files, data formats, telephony signaling systems and TCP application protocols. This is a framework to give all the related pieces a proper place and more importantly, to keep things like network APIs out of application code. I would be interested in submitting this for Boost review but suspect that the library is too big. It also overlaps with a long list of existing components including serialization, asio, MPI, threads, uuid, any, variant and statechart. Maybe the integration of all those facilities is interesting to Boost? Or if there was something that could be carved off for separate submission - perhaps the UTF templates? Cheers, Scott