Any Boost plans to put any more focus towards threading and multi-processing in the near future perhaps to provide more user experiences with libraries that solve programmer's problems. It would help advise any C++ threading standardisation effort. Has the effort moved towards say http://jupiter.robustserver.com/mailman/listinfo/cpp-threads_decadentplace.o... 1) Boost Thread library work seems to have slowed considerably and yet now more than ever this is one area where C++ is sadly lacking. Recent commentaries such as Kevlin's on this list have not necessarily flattered the Boost thread design, but do we have a champion(s) who are/could help to address this, or are alternative efforts happening instead behind the scenes in C++ working groups? I've seen lots of excellent advise from Peter Dimov, Dave Abrahams and many others but is it the case that its just seen as too thorny a problem for individual's to commit to, or is Boost thread considered sufficient? 2) Is Shmem being considered for the full-scale Boost library treatment as it appears to have a great deal of useful functionality to support existing OS threading and shared memory techniques. I realise reaching a full consensus may be impossible, but I would argue that multi-processing through threading, process control and shared data structures is an area of critical importance to C++ in the next few years. A well-understand pragmatic but not perfect fit to C++ is better than none at all. Regards Paul Baxter