As you may know, Galen and myself were invited to discuss the SIP 3 draft that 3M are preparing. SIP is the Standard Interchange Protocol (also called Standard Interface Protocol or Self-Issue Protocol in some documentation), used for connecting issuing terminals (or whatever) to Koha or other Library Management Systems. A draft has now been sent for us to vote on. We can agree, agree with comments or disagree with comments (or fail to vote ;-) ) If you have particular questions about things that caused you problems with SIP 2 and you think should be fixed in SIP 3, please ask me and I'll try to find the answer. If you'd like a general list of the changes or sight of the draft, let me know and I'll see what I can share under the various agreements I've made to see SIP 3. Of course, I hope that it'll be freely shareable once it's agreed, but I'd like it to be drafted as well as it can be before that. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/