> Unfortunately, from what I've seen of Open Source, what you
> need is not just
> a "coordinator" but someone who is willing to be the architect for the
> complete solution and then implement at least a minimally
> working system in
> order to generate interest in others.  At that point people
> will likely be
> willing to help make it better, but the "architect" still has
> to retain
> central authority and has to be willing to do everything that
> volunteers
> aren't willing to do.

This doesn't seem to be quite the same situation. The TPC specification
provides all the detail anyone might want about what has to be
done--operations, sequencing, even database table/set and column/field types
and names. IOW, the "architecting" is pretty much done, at least for the
code to be written--I suspect that some work will be needed to set up the
client driver boxes. What's missing is an implementation.

Steve