Ya know i really don't give a rats arse about who likes what company or what program. It is completely irrelevant to establishing these icons. Your not asking them to work together. Your asking them to work with you (or whomever establishes the standard) for their benefit. This is why i suggest not basing your icons, rules and such on any of the established sites.

If some vendor doesn't want to claim D|S compatibility thats their choice. But if they do claim it then it dam well better be true.

Grass roots movement is a great idea. Getting some well known names well established vendors to back you up will make the grass grow faster. Keep up the grass roots but don't ignore the big guys.

In my honest opinion (of the big sales sites) DAZ is probably the least of your concerns. Most of the time you can pretty well guess what your getting from DAZ. Rosity is probably the one you need to have either on board or on the record as not opposing the icons. The last thing you need is for the stores to reject promo images because of the icons.
You should solicit the opinions of individual vendors and PoserPros, Renderotic, RuntimeDNA, 3dCommune (and others I'm sure can be named).

I think if its sold right this could very easily be put into play.

I think to some extent with something like this you may just have to throw down and say this is what I am establishing give me feed back. Then move forward with it ignoring the nay sayers. Remember your not asking the vendors or the sites to do hardly anything. They are already testing their products. Your offering them a recognizable symbol (that transcends language barriers) that will be to their advantage to display. The only work they have to do is add this unobtrusive icon to their promo images and maybe a link to the web page that delineates what the symbols mean or if the sales sites support the icons then they will just have to check the appropriate boxes.

Dlfurman's idea was good. I think it's biggest drawback was that there was no financial interest at stake. Something like what your proposing could have a positive effect on sales. It will probably also be something you have to actively support by e-mailing vendors who are not using them and inviting them to use them.

Please pardon me if i get ahead of you, but I'm kinda enthusiastic about this.

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