Demonstration projects don't make a market, and concentrators aren't well suited for calculators. The bottom line was that the time wasn't right. I have frequent discussions about this with my managament, and the good news is that they are listening. I have already spoken with many of the individuals and if you check you may find that a number of them are subscribing to this. There are a number of impressive people on your list.
Standards are a gosh awful complicated thing.
The problem is that even if most of the systems out there function well, a couple of them that don't work can give the entire industry a bad name. If we can develop the right standards, we can reduce the number of failures so that the successes will be overwhelming. The trick is to devise the tests that identify failures without being too costly. The more people involved in this, the better our chances of identifying the right tests. You are very welcome to help.