And then we'll see which path they choose. I think that this is the situation for many of us. Either way, like Brian, I will have to choose soon. The notion that the browser user can receive no value from sessioning systems just does not cut it in the real world.
Chances are it is a personal touch that made a difference.
We can't do that with the web, but sessioning gives us a start. Particularly if the sessions can be associated with user profile or other data. If anybody is interested, I could try to list what benefits I would hope to get from a extensible sessioning standard. Please, do something, and make that something extensible. Give us publishers another tool to use in our efforts to make our sites more valuable.