Hi Boost, I have been working on a serialization solution for a few years. It started out with fundamentally different goals to most other offerings. Most obviously it tackles file and network serialization as one, delivering full network messaging out of the box. It also delivers runtime-selectable encodings. But to get a full picture of what it's about, feel free to poke around in the software at; http://groups.google.co.nz/group/pact-serialization/web This library is being used as the basis for further products but there is also the possibility that it might be useful in a standalone way. Technically I would be happy to initiate a Boost review process but realistically I think the library is too big and it overlaps functionally with several existing Boost components including; serialization, asio, MPI, any, uuid, statechart, thread, timer and variant. The underlying concepts for this merging of software technologies comes from two sources; * SDL (http://www.sdl-forum.org/SDL/index.htm) * Active Objects (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Act-Obj.pdf) Perhaps there is value in the way that the different technologies work together? Or maybe there is value in the approach to serialization that can be added to Boost? Strangely, after mention of lofty topics such as SDL and AO, the only real contender for a Boost submission would appear to be the UTF facillity within the library. So - is there any interest in a Boost UTF component? Cheers, Scott