Bruce – Thank you for the post.  This is certainly worthy of comment.  I’d offer a few things and I know that Scott Murphy at ASTM would be glad to address this as well.  EDR approached ASTM about a year ago this month with this concept.  In our conversations we discussed how ASTM has been trying to launch a successful online training program for a number of years and has looked to several for profit partnering companies in the past to do just this.  It is my read that the platform EDR offers gave ASTM a low risk opportunity to try this out again because we had already created a couple courses that were doing well online.  This was a very much shared risk/shared revenue venture.  The revenue that ASTM generates from the courses they provide is vital to the sustainment of the overall organization and the compensation for the instructors, and the revenue that EDR generates supports the platform, the software and the delivery.   A cornerstone benefit is that the industry has more opportunity to get educated on the protocols, which was the whole objective in the first place.   It is my personal belief that everyone benefits from a better educated market.