Harold has kindly volunteered to lead the effort to create a SRFI specifying a Scheme API for talking to relational-style databases.   I am very grateful to him for this: as chief cook and bottle-washer for the ongoing R7RS-large effort, I have more than enough on my plate without the database API too, and I was starting to feel "thin and stretched", as Bilbo says.  I have bee impressed with Harold's effort and dedication on the SRFI 170 (Posix) design and implementation, and I am confident that he can produce a good result that will unify this very complex and difficult problem.