Vinnie Falco via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org>: I would like to measure the interest in a fork of Asio, proposed as a Boost library for review. That is the beauty of free and open source software. You don't have to ask. Fork it. Make something truly better, prove its value... You don't have to ask anyone. But good luck with it. Asio is incredibly complicated library. I once pored it to non standard platform many years ago and it wasn't easy. I suggest try gaining developer's trust by making real valuable contributions and join as co maintainer. IMHO if something is needed it is a lightweight object oriented alternative to asio instead of template based one when for example stream socket handles both Unix domain socket and tcp without templates. But it is totally different story (one of reasons I created aio library that resembles asio but very different internally) Best Artyom