[linux-audio-user] Firewire HW

I'm trying to keep up with these threads about people venting frusteration with propreitary 1394 audio interfaces. Wouldn't all these problems be fixed and everybody be happy, users, OSS advocates, and hardware manufactures if rather than dealing with drivers, a robust pro-audio transport standard specification was created for 1394? Something similar to how you can plug in any DV cam with firewire and "it just works" (tm)? How hard would it be to get all these developers, or at least a siginificant portion of them, to sit down and hammer out a firewire proaudio spec they would all be willing to support? -Reuben