Norm Friesen just returned from the IEEE LTSC quarterly meetings, and he posted a brief report here.
Some progress on intellectual property issues, but what sounds most interesting is the proposal (apparently adopted already) to reserve physical namespaces for the elements of a metadata XML binding, such that the URI actually points to an info page defining what the purpose/meaning/etc... of that element is. We won't have to collectively scratch our heads and say "WTF is semantic density, anyways?"