As someone who is not an academic researcher and not a student in CS, I would like to express a personal opinion; we don't need a new standard. Maybe you just don't realise how much we do need a new standard!
standard. To me, Haskell needs more libraries, more users (which means more debugging and more documentations), Without a standard that everyone uses, debuggers and implementations are useless.
course more real applications (darcs did a lot of the success of Haskell) Darcs is NOT written in Haskell, its written in ghc. (ditto Pugs, ditto Yi ...)
If people want to standardize things, their time could be, IMHO, best spent by standardizing libraries (I just recently discovered that Text.Regex is not standard and my programs do not run under hugs). Heirarchical libraries, i.e. the whole concept of putting a dot between Text and Regex are NOT in the Haskell standard. This type of thing is the thing that needs standardising.
Neil