Exactly my point...Let POET's partners and customers do the leg work at the  committees. 

Why burn the company's time? 

Consider for a moment the number of verticals POET is now involved with. It  becomes much more efficient to let others burn time on working groups to discuss the merits of each standard being developed. In general even the biggest of companies will design to standards of interoperability but not necessarily depending on the interface and form factor that they desire.  The bigger the company the more selective they are in what they are looking for in terms of system architecture. Facebook is a good example of this. 

Facebook’s network engineering team succeeded in creating a data networking architecture that is effective and efficient, while keeping things simple. Although implementation is still on a limited scale, we can definitely expect it to be fully operational in all of Facebook’s data centers. The initial reaction of many is that the new design is specific only to Facebook. For now, perhaps, it is, but there is no doubt that it may also be applicable to other enterprises and companies. After all, if you take note of the principles behind it, they apply to pretty much any data center, not just Facebook’s.

The thing you need to remember is that POET's Optical Interposer platform is very flexible in design and therefore they do not need to do any steering at the committee level. Their customers determine their needs. As we have been advised their customers are identifying new products that can be achieved by using POET Optical Interposer for their needs.

The fundamental concept of the platform allows for a mix and match of devices as determined by the customers needs.