David,
> The radical proposal was the RULE system. It's been tested now, and
> it's pretty much failed.
I don't think you've demonstrated that. I know *you* don't like RULEs,
but others do. I could propose that UUIDs are a bankrupt concept (which
I believe) and therefore we should drop the UUID contrib module, but I
don't think I'd get very far.
--Josh