Ok it's a little scary and unexpected to be asked to serve on the Core. After the shock has worn off a little I'm now ready to get down to work. My first tasks will be data access issues.

Will we implement the DALII? Not right now, we have some other priorities like the Firebird provider. 

However, here are the reasons I am"ok" that we are not using the DAL II right now:

The MAIN reason we did the DAL II proposal was because the development configuration and complexity and amount of code needed for the DAL was p ...