Just to set the record straight, and give credit where it is due, the
original proposal for this protocol was made by Moshe Braner in an
Usenet article sometime in 1988 (or was it 87, I do not remember). The
proposal was worked over by Julian Reschke in consultation with
Edgar Röeder in Germany, where it ended up
in the present form. Julian Reschke has since been its chief spokesman, and
clearing house for registering unique XBRA identifiers. Atari Germany adopted
XBRA as an ``official'' standard in 1989 but didn't do anything to push it.
XBRA as I know it, came
back to me from Germany in the form of an include file for the Gnu C
library, thanks to Edgar Röeder. In case you are wondering XBRA is an
abbreviation for eXtended BRAner protocol.