I would like to see the community come up with an open standard that would 
kill off NMEA.  It could stay purely ascii, be bi-directional, easy to use, 
no binary mumbo-jumbo.  It could be extensible like XML.  Best of all it 
would be free for everyone including manufacturers.
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