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SIG Coordinator: 

Topics: Use external library for message IDL and marshalling. Determine which library to use and how to integrate it into ROS.

Members:

 * Dirk Thomas
 * Geoffrey Biggs
 * Daniel Stonier
 * Nico Hochgeschwender
 * Bob Dean
 * Damon Kohler
 * Jack O'Quin

Mailing list:

 * http://groups.google.com/group/ros-sig-msg-idl

== Proposed new features ==

 * Use external library for message IDL and marshalling (i.e. [[http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/|Protocol Buffers]], [[http://msgpack.org|MsgPack]], ...).
 * Consider replacement of ROS message IDL vs. generate external IDL based on ROS IDL.