As I gather materials for the meeting next week, it has occurred to me that I have one major nagging question: Are we really ready to submit the bibliographic profile to a standards body? Should we wait until there is at least one implementation? I'm one of the (few) people who was planning to create an implementation, and I haven't had a chance to try it yet. I'm uneasy about trying to standardize the profile without knowing whether there are any real-world constraints that we have overlooked. ---- Ryan Scherle ---- Digital Library Program ---- Indiana University