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Richard Walker writes:

 > Clearly the reason we do not have this for CTAN is the fact that TDS
 > is still only a `draft' standard.

No! The reason is that there are not enough people in the TeX world
that work on CTAN.

Most standards are drafts anyway.

Rainer Schöpf (wearing his CTAN hat)